Lpc2000

On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 01:24:02AM -0500, J.C. Wren wrote:
> 	I'm more curious why companies target the Windows market so heavily.  I've 

Simply because most customers and potential customers use Windows. You will note,
however, that our tools are also available under Linux. And this is one of the
reasons for using Java for the IDE. While there were some solutions for
creating GUIs that would run under both Windows and Linux, they all had
drawbacks. I made the decision around 4 years ago that Java was the way
for the future. At the time, the available Java tools were lacking in some
respects, but the current set of tools (we have used the IBM JDK but are back
to the SUN JDK now) are not too bad. 

Speed of Java is not an issue, except for the GUI stuff. It's a lot better
than it was, and given the price of current hardware, will cease to be an
issue very shortly. Having adequate memory in your Windows machine is far more
improtant in any case.

So that's why our IDE uses Java. It's portable, and it is FAR more productive
to write in than C++. It costs the user a little more in terms of hardware
required, but every day that goes by makes that less of an issue.

As Kris said, it's an investment in the future.

We're also considering porting the tools to the Mac - with Mac OS X and
Java it's actually possible.

cheers, Clyde

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