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Mark, I may be another Mac convert!; Vista is a kick in the b@lls.
Topic Started: Oct 16 2006, 10:53 AM (500 Views)
Steve Miller
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George K
Oct 19 2006, 07:54 PM
Besides, Macs are just as cheap as PC's now, so there's really no reason...

Can I buy a Mac for $500? That's what PC are being advertised for at the local Big Box store. Best price I've seen on a Mac is something like $1400.

Even at that it might be worth the extra $Grand if I'm going to have trouble with Vista and can't do my work. I'll have to see if Quickbooks will run on a Mac, and if I can transfer the data from one to the other.
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uevA
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Ah! Mac, mac!

Such beautiful poetry within these words. I am at a loss for the great and humble art presented by such apprentices of the world!
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JBryan
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Exactly what I have never liked about Apple. Closed platform.

Knock yourselves out. I am having zero problems with my PC(s) from the operating system side (apart from constant and annoying "updates"). All of my problems stem from the software that runs on it. Apps written well perform magnificently but those written not so well display various degrees of problems. I can't imagine that switching to a Mac environment would change that at all. In fact, I would be willing to bet a crisp $100 dollar bill that the RF signal propagation software I run on a PC would do no better and would very likely run far worse on a Mac if it would even run at all. Until it can do that Mac is of no use to me.
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Mark
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why couldn't you port it?

I mean, C, C++ C#, Objective C it's all the same really.

And WoW runs just fine natively on the Mac platform.

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Axtremus
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Mark
Oct 20 2006, 12:45 AM
why couldn't you port it?

I mean, C, C++ C#, Objective C it's all the same really.

What if it's not written in C to begin with?
Running the existing app in a virtual Windows machine inside a Mac would be much simpler.

On a separate topic, Mark... I've been meaning to ask you:

Do you develop software on the Mac? What do you use for source code version control on the Mac?

Thanks.
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Mark
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A myriad of languages exist for the Mac.

Yes, I develop all my software on the Mac. Most of my customers use Windows. All my software runs cross and mixed platform on Mac, Win, Linux.

I abandoned low level programming years ago. More than I actually care to admit at this point. Let's just say my company is celebrating it's 20th anniversary this coming January and leave it at that.

I use a IDE called Omnis Studio. http://www.omnis.net It has it's own Version Control System built-in.

I started using Omnis in 1982/1983. I continued with a mixed bag of language skills until 1986 at which point I abandoned low level programming as the money was much better writing custom business database GUI front end applications using "4GL" tools like Omnis.


A small history of the product...

1979 Paul Wright founded Blyth (later renamed Omnis) based in East Anglia which became the first Apple dealership in the UK. Early on he recognized the Graphical User Interface was the future for desktop computers and business software.

1982 Recognizing the need for powerful business application development tools Omnis released its first "Omnis" product, a database application tool for the Apple 2 designed by David Seaman, Omnis CTO.

1983/4 Released Omnis 3, the first cross-platform database application tool for Apple computers and IBM compatibles running under MS-DOS.

1984 The Apple Macintosh was introduced.

1985 Omnis 3 Plus was released- one of the first database generation tools available for the Mac.
1987 Released Omnis Quartz, the first GUI database for Microsoft Windows. (Omnis 3 Plus version 3.25 generally available).

1989 Released Omnis 5, the first cross-platform development tool for building applications under Windows and Mac.

1992/3/4 Released Omnis 7 v1, v2, and v3 in consecutive years, the first fully integrated development environment providing client/server access to many industry standard server databases such as Oracle, Sybase, and Informix.

1997 Released Omnis Studio, first cross-platform, cross-component application development environment that lets you integrate native and external components.

1999 Released the Omnis Web Thin Client for browsing your data and applications on the internet or your intranet.

1999 Released Omnis Studio for Linux making Omnis the first development tool available under Linux, Windows, and Mac.

November 2000 Omnis released Omnis Studio 3.0... web client executing local events, multi-threaded application and database server access, and more...

December 2000 Omnis Software merge with PICK Systems to become Raining Data Corporation, specializing in Enterprise Solutions for businesses.

March 2004 release of Omnis Studio version 4 that includes support for MySQL JDBC, Java Objects, brand new environment, enhanced team development, and more.

November 2005. Release of Omnis Studio 4.1 including support for Unicode, new Graph Component, batch fetching, enhanced Java Object capability and more.

August 2006. Release of Omnis Studio 4.2 including native support for Mac-Intel and introduction of Web Services Component.

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