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To: Adam Nash who wrote (25855)	8/9/1999 12:11:00 AM
From: Louis Gray	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213187

According to AppleInsider, in a story for tomorrow, Blueberry iBook presales are outnumbering Tangerine at a ratio of about 3 to 2. Some examples include 100 backorders of Blueberry iBooks compared to 59 Tangerine iBooks at MacMall, and 66 Blueberry to 49 Tangerine at MacZone. appleinsider.com Would you buy one in tangerine?

To: Adam Nash who wrote (25855)	8/10/1999 12:38:00 PM
From: rhet0ric	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213187

The last time I checked (which granted, might have been 12 months ago!) i thought the market research was that FrontPage had a significant majority marketshare. That wouldn't surprise me. Frontpage is given away with every copy of Windows, IE, and Office. But as I said, Frontpage is very much consumerware. The problem with WYSIWYG html editors is that they create non-standard html, and often screw up your documents. If they do let you into the html, their raw html editors are often very low-end. Dreamweaver is good because it's not only a very powerful WYSIWYG editor (it has built in multi-platform scripting support for Javascript, dhtml, flash, etc.), but as mentioned is integrated with powerful raw html editors. Anyway, this is relevant to the AAPL thread because I can't imagine that anyone would use a PC because of Frontpage unless they were an ASP shop, which probably means they were on PCs to start with. Higher-end development apps are a different matter: a lot of these are for NT or Solaris only (although some, e.g. StoryServer, are Java based, and others, e.g. Webobjects, obviously have Mac versions). This won't change until OS X comes out, and apps are ported from Linux or Solaris. Even still, most Internet teams work in a mixed environment, with designers/ site builders on Macs, developers on either NT or Unix, and business/ sales etc on Win98. I've worked at 4 Web shops in the last 4 years, and consulted for 20 others, and this seems to be the typical pattern. It'll be interesting to see what happens when OS X matures, and it becomes a very viable option to be entirely Mac-only. rhet0ric