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> but I recall all those 90's companies who died miserably basing their whole business model around objects Do you have any examples?
by Kiro 4y ago
> but I recall all those 90's companies who died miserably basing their whole business model around objects
Do you have any examples?
- inopinatus 4y agoOr rather, any object lessons.
- BjoernKW 4y agoNeXT, for one. They didn't exactly die miserably, given their technology is what ultimately still runs Apple's OS software and APIs. NeXT's business model was based on objects to some extent at least and they were enthusiastically selling object-oriented software as a business feature, rather than a technical matter only software developers care about. Here's Steve Jobs demoing NeXTSTEP's object-oriented development environment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rf5o5liZxnA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rf5o5liZxnA The way he explains it, it makes perfect sense (as one would expect): In an ideal world, an object-oriented software development approach not only allows non-technical people to define requirements but also enables them to compose and build applications from existing components without having to write a single line of code.
- rileyphone 4y agoI think the model was ultimately pretty successful, with the primary example being the World Wide Web. The biggest reasons for the NeXT's failure was the decline of 68k coupled with rise of Windows IMO.
- radicalriddler 4y agoI used to work for a company a year ago who's initial market was selling object definitions for Medical software (in Delphi). It was all HL7 spec models. They've pivoted to B2B software now rather than marketing to developers, but that was back around the 2000's that they were doing it.