Comments on: RE: REAL Studio: About the Name Change

By: Andy Dent

Andy Dent — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 04:24:09 +0000

As a professional cross-platform developer, I use a wide range of tools and read about even more. IMHO the appropriation of the “Enterprise” name is a mistake that will come back to haunt them because I don’t think the product lives up to the level of the Enterprise versions of other tools and when professional developers start doing that comparison it will cause them to unfairly dismiss an excellent product. As a bare minimum, the things I would expect to see added to bring the product up to a real “Enterprise-level” product:
- ORM features such as shown in RealWorld 2008
- much more serious reporting including a user-deployable way to edit or reconfigure reports – people need to be able to easily produce the kind of multi-level corporate reports
- connectivity to commercial databases including Oracle and SQL Server without reliance on any third-party drivers. (I suspect the commercial MySQL stuff is held up with the Oracle-Sun deal).
- a way to generate some kind of web solution, even if was just bundling Yuma for now.

By: Scott Steinman

Scott Steinman — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 04:44:17 +0000

Changing the name to REAL Studio is like adding “excellence” or “pro”. It’s meaningless unless backed up with substance. The “Enterprise” level is completely misleading because it does not add enterprise-level tools, libraries, language features or controls to the standard edition. I’m very disappointed. Even the “pro” levels of other programming tools — those by equally small programming tool companies like JetBrains or Wingware — are more advanced than the “enterprise” level of REALbasic.

By: Bob Keeney

Bob Keeney — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 22:33:03 +0000

“Reality from REAL Software.” Does have a nice ring to it.

By: Thom McGrath

Thom McGrath — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 19:18:04 +0000

I’ve always liked the name “Reality” personally. The “REAL” part of the name is kept, and the marketing practically writes itself.