All right, enough of this!
I've been a "Mac Fanatic" (or whatever the naysayers or shorters want to call me this week) for many years. I'm excited by what has transpired in the past couple of days in many ways. As an AAPL stockholder, MacUser, computer user and general public citizen. I'm a Mac consultant dealing with the concerns of the mac buying public on a daily basis. Here are my thoughts:
My clients want to buy macs, This "vote of confidence" from MS means they won't have to learn a new word processor, Yeah! (I've already moved most of them to ClarisWorks, but at least the hardcore MS holdouts are covered.)
OS8 is great and even sensible people are upgrading immediately.
Rhapsody WILL happen and blow NT out of the water.
Ellison will force some sort of NC move, Gates will watch (here's more of the plus for Bill) and if it looks like it will fly, MS is there.
Java will happen, open standards be damned, no one will win, it'll just happen.
Bottom line:
Who gives a damn who wins?
If I can use the OS I like and turn a profit on the stock: great!
No more windmills for me; this time it's the high road:
The stuff I like isn't going away (any sooner that any other OS), so I can use it;
It may be the alternative to what the general public is using, but it's still available;
It'll probably be "all-one-platform" (a la Dr. Bronner) in a couple of years anyway (as I've been predicting to friends and clients for the last five to seven years).
The trick is to make money off of all this crap in the next couple of years.
Dirk |
