[news.eclipse.platform.swt] Re: Swing port is coming - Lotus assists IBM

[Philippe Marschall <kustos@xxxxxxx>]

> If you are in commercial arena, you have to compete against
> other native platform competitors.
Agreed.

> When there are plenty of them,
> users are not simply interested in ugly looking Swing systems or alikes.

So it really boils down to that you think Synthetica, Alloy, JGoodies,
Office look ugly? Have you even looked at them?

> Please don't be too religious about technology.

Ok, I will longer tell `techonology X is pure crap and there is no way
in the world that you can wirte an application with it that will sell so
it will leave you unemployed'

> Note that if you are writing casual-end user GUI *enterprise* s/w,
> it's the Windows users who will pay the bill, not Unix/Linux or Mac.

So the question is why do SAP, Zend, Yahoo and all those companies use
Swing? All idiots?