Randy,
I don't think it'll take several years for Rhapsody and the MacOS to merge. IF you believe the rumor boards such as MacOS Rumors and Reality, Allegro, the next MacOS, should ship with a full set of Yellow Box APIs in September, followed by Sonata about six months later, which will SUPPOSEDLY be a Yellow Box with a transparent Blue Box (Allegro will supposedly be the MacOS with transparent Yellow Box). In a sense, it may just be a matter of semantics--the Rhapsody OS will be a server/high-end OS, the MacOS will be a consumer OS, but BOTH will actually be Rhapsody in about a year from now.
This is all based upon rumor and speculation, of course, but we should learn more in May at the developer's conference. This possiblility of quick OS convergence should interest shareholders greatly because, if true, would result in an almost uncrashable, multitasking, protected memory, symetric multiprocessing, object-oriented MacOS in about a year, with the added bonus of having Java integrated at the system level! In other words, a consumer machine that will be hard to ignore.
Guess we'll see!
Paul Arthur |
