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To: Phillip C. Lee who wrote (13488)	5/12/1998 9:38:00 AM
From: rhet0ric	Respond to of 213177

I don't understand what "Rhapsody on Intel and on Windows" means. Rhapsody is an OS, while window is another OS. Rhapsody is an Unix- based, Window is an pc OS. He meant Rhapsody on Intel, and Yellow Box on Windows, I believe. And I don't think it's a smoke-screen at all. In fact, I think that Jobs saying "no more Rhapsody" is the smoke-screen. They want Mac developers to port first, then Apple will go full bore cross platform. The purpose, as someone mentioned, is to avoid the OS/2 debacle, where noone wrote OS/2 apps because OS/2 could run Windows apps (until Windows itself changed, and made OS/2 obsolete and new-app-less). rhet0ric

To: Phillip C. Lee who wrote (13488)	5/12/1998 10:16:00 AM
From: J R KARY	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213177

Phil Jobs announcements are confusing but consider the background Upon hearing S Jobs kill Rhapsody my 1st take was What ??? After 1 1/2 years of conversion you discover your own 10 year old product has limitations and 3 months before distribution it suddenly isn't a fit ? Then I factored in AAPL's old line developers in WWDC attendance , the DOJ's pending action , MSFT's $ 150 mln investment , MSFT's Office '98 , and MSFT's IE agreement . I then compared these against the WWDC's almost exclusive agenda of Yellow & Blue Box (RHAPSODY) implementation sessions , OpenBase's Rhapsody announcements and concluded a multi-platform Rhapsody is not dead . Following my own advice , I will await more reporting from the WWDC this entire week . Regards, Jim K.