Comments on: Joyent Slingshot: a smart product idea http://www.blueskyonmars.com/2007/03/24/joyent-slingshot-a-smart-product-idea/ Kevin Dangoor on Software Development Fri, 21 Nov 2008 20:25:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: brandon http://www.blueskyonmars.com/2007/03/24/joyent-slingshot-a-smart-product-idea/#comment-118057 brandon Sun, 25 Mar 2007 02:23:03 +0000 http://www.blueskyonmars.com/2007/03/24/joyent-slingshot-a-smart-product-idea/#comment-118057 how is this better/different then using dojo offline storage? how is this better/different then using dojo offline storage?

]]> By: sean http://www.blueskyonmars.com/2007/03/24/joyent-slingshot-a-smart-product-idea/#comment-117973 sean Sat, 24 Mar 2007 23:17:15 +0000 http://www.blueskyonmars.com/2007/03/24/joyent-slingshot-a-smart-product-idea/#comment-117973 The idea is interesting, but we'll see how they price it for non-hosting customers: "While we continue to kick around different business models for Joyent Slingshot, we can safely say that Slingshot will be available for free to developers that host their Rails application on Joyent Accelerators. Other uses of Slingshot will be allowed, but we haven’t finalized the pricing for those uses. Everyone using Joyent Connector will get a version of Joyent Connector on Slingshot for free." The idea is interesting, but we’ll see how they price it for non-hosting customers:

“While we continue to kick around different business models for Joyent Slingshot, we can safely say that Slingshot will be available for free to developers that host their Rails application on Joyent Accelerators. Other uses of Slingshot will be allowed, but we haven’t finalized the pricing for those uses. Everyone using Joyent Connector will get a version of Joyent Connector on Slingshot for free.”

]]> By: David http://www.blueskyonmars.com/2007/03/24/joyent-slingshot-a-smart-product-idea/#comment-117771 David Sat, 24 Mar 2007 13:24:24 +0000 http://www.blueskyonmars.com/2007/03/24/joyent-slingshot-a-smart-product-idea/#comment-117771 "...I did indeed create an easy way for me to build Windows and Mac double-clickable apps (with little bits of platform-specific GUI to make it nice)." Any plans on releasing it, so that Python programmers can play too? “…I did indeed create an easy way for me to build Windows and Mac double-clickable apps (with little bits of platform-specific GUI to make it nice).”

Any plans on releasing it, so that Python programmers can play too?

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