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From: "Edward F. Shea III" <eshea@mail.bcpl.lib.md.us>
Subject: Re: Angry, very angry, at Apple Computer Corp. 
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On 25 Oct 1995, EndUser wrote:

> you guys are playing a numbers game.  in the beginning if you wrote an 
> app you had about 10k computers to sell to, then later you had 100k 
> computers, then later you had 1m computers, today you have 12m macs, and 
> 90m pc.  the apps you mention are long ago written and put to bed.  in 
> fact, apps are going the other direction, they are being broken up into 
> pieces, the monoliths are dead, not the machines they run on.  if apple 
> can sell machines, and you can write a piece of code that can run on it, 
> yo will.  also, next year the blur between dissimilar machines is 
> dissolving (CHRP).  apple doesnt need to chase developers for "their" 
> machines if "their" machines can run the code that runs on "the other 
> machine".  you guys are looking at this thru the eyes of 1985, we are 
> getting into opendoc, ole, and high-end servers that run a middle ware 
> that doesnt care who talks to it.
> 
> 
> 
> 
Given Apple's production woes, doesn't a move toward client-server with 
high-end serversr that run a middle ware look ominous?

 Ed Shea
eshea@mail.bcpl.lib.md.us

