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  Results from the 2004 ONJava Reader Survey
Subject:   re: Mac dev vs. deploy
Date:   2004-05-24 06:08:49
From:   invalidname
Response to: Mac dev vs. deploy

You don't need to sell your editors on the value of Macs, as a check of our author bio's will show. :-)


But here's something to think about. We said that Mac Java development numbers were "several times the platform's supposed market share". That's the part your discussion bolsters: that Macs are nice, they have Office and bash, etc. What we said was "puzzling" was that there were more people saying that they were developing Java on a Mac than people saying they were developing Java for the Mac.


So how does that work? Some possibilities:



  • Developer writes web app on Mac, deploys to Linux, Solaris, etc. Suggests Macs aren't as popular as app servers

  • Developer writes client-side (AWT, Swing, or SWT) app on Mac, deploys to Windows, Linux, etc. and not Mac. Does this seriously happen? Amazingly, yes. In fact, I did exactly this at a company with a stringent Windows-only release policy (and no, I wasn't happy about it).

  • Developers write client-side apps on various platforms, and don't target or support Mac. Why not?


So that's what we find puzzling. Of these hypotheses (and there may be more... please talkback!), I find the first the most plausible.


-Chris
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  • re: Mac dev vs. deploy
    2004-05-25 03:35:47  jwenting [View]

    People write FOR the platform the customer uses.
    They write ON the platform they (or their employer) chooses.

    If Macs are chosen by some companies whose customers use Windows you're writing on a Mac for Windows.
    Apple would love that, it's been the other way around for decades :)

    Personally I don't use a Mac though I might purchase a Mac laptop at some stage for photoprocessing.
    We develop on Windows, deploy on a mix of Unix flavours as web applications. We could just replace the Windows boxes with Macs but why bother as they work well and are cheap (plus we DO sell them as well, we're a systems integrator and IBM reseller as well as creating software).

    So we develop ON Windows FOR AIX (and SCO and Linux).