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To: soup who wrote (4664)	9/1/1997 11:46:00 PM
From: FR1	of 213177

Two points and qustions: 1) Rhapsody will run on Intel machines. So what's all the fuss about the clones? In January 98 Rhapsody will be available. At the release CA and other vendors will have software that runs on it. Adobe has already said that they, reluctantly, will write for it. Certainly by mid to late 98 you can load Rhapsody on any Intel machine and run the major software packages. This means any clone maker in the world will be a seller of the MacOS. So why are people are so concerned with the loss of a clone market? 2) I am amazed at how everybody talks politics and nobody looks at the system itself. Rhapsody is a killer of an OS. Academics, large businesses and Web Masters live and die by UNIX. They all want a big, stable, business to offer a great GUI for UNIX. Sun is not a company to bet your business life on. A stable Apple is. Rhapsody is built on the most common and stable version of UNIX around. Nobody in these circles really likes NT (a bad rewrite of UNIX) but there is no other offering so they reluctantly are pushed to buy NT. Then there is the language. Object C is the hands down favorite with IS managers. NextStep is very elegant and loyal to Object C. If you look closely at it you gotta be happy. Microsoft's version is more like hamburger. The bottom line is that you can fool the public and buy off the journalists but you can't fool the professionals. The only thing that will kill the Apple comeback is if they make the system and tools too expensive for the average programmer to buy. This is VERY possible - if they don't let us have NextStep and Web Objects (together) for around $500 it may be all over for Apple - killed by greed. What do you think?

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