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Rumors of Chandler's Death Are Greatly Exaggerated

Posted by Anonymous User at 2008-01-24 11:33 AM

It's a nice calendar application, with distributed and server modes, it interops with lots of cool stuff, it's got a great plugin architecture. No, it didn't become the super-PIM it was planned to be, but so what?

A lot of projects' "success" looks a lot worse than Chandler's so-called "failure"!

Let's have a little perspective, eh?

--PJE

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Posted by ceperez at 2008-01-24 09:32 PM

Maybe the step in the right direction is documenting the component model?

And if the various fiefdoms can't agree on whose component model to pick, pick a foreign one. For example, just pick OSGI or the Eclipse plugin model and then move forward.

The Pyhton community is very innovative. However the downside is that there's too much of a N.I.H. syndrome. I mean, Zope was the equivalent of Rails (i.e. the killer framework) for the Python world. Anyway, what happened to Zope? Appears, everyone and their mother decided to build yet their own other web framework.

Carlos