[mattl]

It was literally a merger on paper, for what that’s worth. NeXT were also close to an IPO and their dev tools were second to none. WebObjects and EOF were first rate products easily worth hundreds of millions to the right people in their own right.

[oblio]

That distortion field is very powerful, I see. NeXT failed as an enterprise. It was close to going the way of the Lisp Machines.

[mattl]

Oh yeah. I have no doubt they were failing. But those two pieces of tech were very smart for their time.

[oblio]

Yes, I, too, saw that demo from the 80's. But the best tech doesn't always win :)

[mattl]

I don’t think EOF is from the 80s. WebObjects certainly isn’t.