They recently deleted their 4 years worth of support forum data which was vital for solving inherent issues with the platform. Even answer that were over 4 years old still held up to certain quirks that exists especially on the android side.
I recently spend quit a bit of time trying to debug an existing Titanium app just to find out that the new Titanium SDK broke HTTP Authentication when using the http client. Things like that should have automated tests and should never make it to a final release.
> They recently deleted their 4 years worth of support forum data which was vital for solving inherent issues with the platform.
Yeah, I was quite shocked when I read that, too. Moving to Stack Overflow and disabling creation of new questions on the old system, okay - but getting rid of it completely is quite a strange move.
I think the acquisition is a good move for both companies and the SDK / platform. Axway is well positioned to take the product and team to a bigger market and is committing more resources into the product.
They are currently working on a plan to retain key information from the legacy q/a forum. SO will be the official forum going forward (which should have been in place early on). Expect a new search feature and cached results that will resolve these issues.
More will be announced in the coming weeks.
Fwiw, I built their new learning platform among other things.
> They are currently working on a plan to retain key information from the legacy q/a forum
That's not what clients are asking. They want access to old threads period.Some people still need to maintain apps developed with a old version of the SDK.
> I think the acquisition is a good move for both companies and the SDK / platform. Axway is well positioned to take the product and team to a bigger market and is committing more resources into the product.
That's corporate talk. It says nothing about how current clients will be treated. It's vague and unnecessary.
Yesterday Axway was not in the mobile business. Today they are. I think existing customers will treated well as they vie for positioning. I think you could infer they want to retain and grow the business, not kill it.
Want is different than would. This is a highly competitive market where Appcelerator is pretty far behind the technical leaders of the pack. It mostly carries thanks to its huge head start but on technical terms its gotten old.
Most employees usually leave even with a good acquisition so if the acquiring company doesn't really "get it" this might be a problem.
Axway acquired my employer several years ago. The primary metric used to evaluate technical solutions seemed to be the birthplace of the engineer. Very silly decisions were made. I advise caution.
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I recently spend quit a bit of time trying to debug an existing Titanium app just to find out that the new Titanium SDK broke HTTP Authentication when using the http client. Things like that should have automated tests and should never make it to a final release.
Yeah, I was quite shocked when I read that, too. Moving to Stack Overflow and disabling creation of new questions on the old system, okay - but getting rid of it completely is quite a strange move.
They are currently working on a plan to retain key information from the legacy q/a forum. SO will be the official forum going forward (which should have been in place early on). Expect a new search feature and cached results that will resolve these issues.
More will be announced in the coming weeks.
Fwiw, I built their new learning platform among other things.
That's not what clients are asking. They want access to old threads period.Some people still need to maintain apps developed with a old version of the SDK.
> I think the acquisition is a good move for both companies and the SDK / platform. Axway is well positioned to take the product and team to a bigger market and is committing more resources into the product.
That's corporate talk. It says nothing about how current clients will be treated. It's vague and unnecessary.
Most employees usually leave even with a good acquisition so if the acquiring company doesn't really "get it" this might be a problem.