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To: Alomex who wrote (16025)	7/29/1998 9:39:00 AM
From: Barnhart	Respond to of 213182

Here is an article from MS Investor that is pessimistic. investor.msn.com Brian

To: Alomex who wrote (16025)	7/29/1998 1:32:00 PM
From: Gerry Hurley	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 213182

Although I'm tending to lurk (and learn) rather than join in while only a free-loader, I thought as a software developer whose company is Rhapsody based I should pick up on Alomex's reference to the MacOS X disaster ... Although the false-reporting post the WWDC announcement that "Rhapsody is dead" was a little unfortunate, the important points are : - that the Mac market need no longer fear a traumatic change of direction at some future date, as was implicit in the "dual-OS" strategy. - that MacOS X will be a truly modern operating system with outstanding performance, stability and COMPATABILITY. It has todays (and tomorrows) MacOS user experience, freed of yesterday's memory management architecture. - that developers can plug into this strategy at whatever level they choose : do nothing; go CARBON; or go Yellow Box for Mac and Windows from a single code-base (as we're doing). - that renaming Rhapsody 1.0 to MacOS X Server was absolutely the right way to clear the confusion and prepare for next year. Although quite properly the current focus is on iMac and hardware, the software side of the story has never been better - I guess the question is whether or when that will impact the stock price. Keep up the good work - a great forum. Gerry Hurley, Dublin, Ireland