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Suggestions and Requests / Re: Port to OS X?

« on: June 01, 2006, 11:20:16 am »

I've got Parallels running here, and that runs fine for me. It's still in beta though. I didn't try bootcamp.

As for 'needing' to run Windows to run EA, I'm certainly not going to buy/ run Windows for that particular reason only and I'm looking for an alternative to EA now. Too bad, I really like EA, but there are enough alternatives that are reasonably priced and do run on multiple platforms.

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Suggestions and Requests / Re: Port to OS X?

« on: June 01, 2006, 08:40:32 am »

Why is it likely he will be having Windows installed on his machine? You really think OSX (or Linux for that matter) doesn't suffice?

The 'vmware' of mac is http://www.parallels.com btw.

That macbook pro seems to be getting pretty viral. Two people that I know bought one the last two weeks, and my last count over at the cofee place I frequently visit was about 1 MBP for every 3 laptops.

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Suggestions and Requests / Re: Port to OS X?

« on: March 24, 2006, 09:02:34 am »

Hi,

I do not mean to rain on your parade, and personally I have nothing against Mac, I rather like it in fact. But, according to both Gartner's and OneStat's studies published recently, Windows accounts for more than 97% of the desktop OS market share - and in fact, Windows' market share has risen, not declined. Amongst larger companies, Mac OS/X is almost non-existent.
At the risk of getting torched alive, I would much prefer Sparx focused on all the great things that they can do with EA, instead of working on porting it onto another platform, with doubtful sales results.

Bruno

Fair enough. I don't know enough about Sparx Systems and their customer base to say they *should* support MAC too. It just seems to me - as a software engineer that is used to develop OS and DBMS agnostic software - that they took a couple of abstraction shortcuts they shouldn't have.

The argument about marketshare etc... Absolute figures mean more than relative, and you are talking about non-specific users while SparxSystems should be interested in their target groups. And it reminds me a lot of the argument of why you don't have to support any other browser than IE, which is an argument I heard a lot the last few years.

Also not that I am not even arguing for a native OS X port. A *decent* Linux port would work too. And anyone arguing that Linux doesn't have market potential missed something. Imvho of course

Yes, resources are limited and there might be things more important than porting. I am just dissapointed that I can't use this product anymore.

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Suggestions and Requests / Re: Port to OS X?

« on: March 23, 2006, 01:02:28 pm »

I actually asked the same question directly to Sparx rather than through the forum about a year ago, and was told I was one of about 3 (from memory) requests ever. Maybe if all OSX users on these forums make themselves known!

How incredible passive that is! Amazing. Did those marketing guys ever hear of market potential instead of just sitting around waiting for customers to ring at the door? I have a decent international network of (Java) developers that I know and I think that around 5 - 10 % of them develop on mac (and another 30% on Linux btw), some of them can be considered 'community leaders' too, meaning that if you get them to like EA and write about it, it'll get you a bunch of new customers too. Where do I apply for that marketing position?

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Suggestions and Requests / Re: Port to OS X?

« on: March 23, 2006, 12:42:41 pm »

It's really a pitty that I can't use Enterprise Architect on my mac. I recently switched to OSX from Windows and I am obsolutely loving it for my development and bookwriting. EA is the only application I can't use. And the company I work for is mac oriented too, so there is no way I can propose EA as our standard now.

Is EA really that tightly coupled to Windows/ Access? I can see that the development costs for fixing this would be higher than the short-term gain, but otoh, OSX is really gaining momentum in the developer's world, so you might be missing out in the long term by not supporting this and having the Linux support just kind of half baked.