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To: Eric Yang who wrote (11833)	4/20/1998 11:30:00 AM
From: Randy Tidd	Read Replies (3) of 213177

> Scott, I don't think that rumor of Intuit selling Quicken to Apple > holds much water. Supporting one product on two different platforms > while maintaining portability, and consistency can takes a lot of > engineering effort... Actually, if you look at that rumor literally, not a lot of additional effort would be required. It said that Intuit might write Quicken for MacOS 8.1 and the Rhapsody Blue Box. The Blue Box is basically a MacOS emulation layer within Rhapsody, so not a lot of additional engineering work would be required to get the software to run both native MacOS and Blue Box. So this would really be a marketing move to provide a "killer app" in the Rhapsody arena. Having a major player support Rhapsody in this fashion would validate it to the market and make it a much more viable product. Now if they had said they were coming out with a Yellow Box version... then I'd have to agree with you that a lot of engineering work would be needed. Randy

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