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To: J R KARY who wrote (13314)	5/11/1998 12:30:00 AM
From: HerbVic	Respond to of 213177

Great read! I think these two snips from the article sum up the promise of Rhapsody quite well. > With this cross-platform strategy, software developers who use > OpenStep and don't use any platform-specific features can write their > programs once and deploy them everywhere, on 100% of the modern PC > market! (We're defining "modern" here to exclude Windows > 3.1 PCs and 68K Macs). This target market for these "pure" OpenStep > applications includes Windows 95, Windows NT, Mac OS, and > Rhapsody users. That's a big market! and > With Rhapsody we get three complete and mature operating systems in > one package: Mac OS, OpenStep, and UNIX. We get close to > 100% compatibility for old Mac programs. We get the best Java platform > on the planet. We get a superior object-oriented environment > for rapid application development. We get great tools for enterprise > computing, distributed computing, and web development. We get an > exciting cross-platform strategy. S'nuff said, HerbVic