Article posted on Aug 28
I wanted to post a follow up to the last few posts I have done on Bungee Labs. This week Bungee let go fifteen people (which I believe is about half of the company.) As I had said in my previous posts, the real question (or one of them) for a company like Bungee is the level to which they can get developers to adopt their language and use their tool. Well, it would appear that the answer is: not as fast as hoped, expected, or needed.
The plan appears to knuckle down, re-tool, make the platform more solid, and develop some compelling apps.
Good luck to them… trying to get developers to adopt a different language is about like trying to do religious conversions. Hopefully inventing the “Killer App” is easier.
See http://intellectualcapital.blogspot.com/2008/09/bungee-labs-adjusts-direction.html for reply.
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Joe, we appreciate you chiming in on this one. It is interesting to get the insight from someone involve int he cuts, and who as been fairly hands-on with Bungee Connect. We will have to see rather enough other developers share your impression of it.
We will be keeping an eye on this one and providing updates.