Agile Tortoise
Greg Pierce’s blog
4-Sight Fax and software vision
A new version of 4-Sight Fax has been released. I used this product for years back in the OS 8 days. It was never great, but was the best fax server solution for the Mac platform at the time.
It’s since been resold to several different developers and never really found a life. They finally came out with an OS X version, completely re-written in Java. Now, they’ve completely re-written it again — this time in REALBasic.
You know a software company is just downright confused when the key point in their press release isn’t what the new version does or doesn’t do, but what platform it’s written in. Users shouldn’t really have to care about that. And, on the Mac, you really only get platform points from the Cocoa bigots anyway. To them, “Now re-written in REALBasic” in a software press release is like slapping a “Now with UHF technology” sticker on a TV.
What I really wonder about at this point is what the value of the 4-Sight name is? If you are going to write a fax server from the ground up, why not start fresh.
