>Geez Chris, what else don't you have, or don't you know or don't you do??
I used to say plumbing was about the only thing I don't do... then I bought a house. So now I jus ttry to stay away from fixing cars. I botched my 1965 T-Bird many years ago (of course I also did MANY successful repairs on it, as well as much of the work done on my Geo Tracker when I had it... so it isn't that I *can't* do cars). >Wait.... You forgot Entourage..... Microsoft Entourage. I don't have a need to support it right now, so I don't really know it. >If everyone doesn't have to pay Microsoft for the program, won't this be >a good choice to replace eMailer? I thought the same group of software >engineers went from Claris to MS for this Entourage product (after >Microsoft planned termination of eMailer)? Yes, some of the Claris developers left Apple and went to work for MS in the Mac Business Unit. But MS did not plan for Emailer to be terminated, and in fact had nothing to do with Emailer's termination. It was a rumor back in the day, but those "in the know" kept trying to tell everyone it wasn't true. No one wanted to listen. Hindsight, it becomes clear that they were all telling the truth... MS had nothing to do with Emailer or Claris being shut down. It was all Jobs, just as the Claris people tried to explain. Jobs did it to cut costs and to make sure there was no unneccesary competition for OS X's products. Emailer would provide competition for Mail.app, which Jobs wasn't going to allow, so Emailer had to die. FileMaker was very profitable, so it was spun off to its own company. That way Apple could show the profits, but not have to account for the costs. AppleWorks was moved off the Claris label and updated for OS X. Appleworks provides an essential "starter" application suite for new Mac buyers. Claris Organizer was sold to Palm, and everything else was just killed off. None of the other applications made enough money to bother keeping alive. Killing them saved Apple money as well as removed one more application competeing with other Mac developers, which made the developers happy and encouraged them to update their applications to OS X. All of the above was pretty much what the Claris people were trying to explain to everyone back when Emailer was killed off. No one wanted to listen, and everyone wanted to blame it on MS. At the time, OS X was still working its way into reality, so no one could believe these kinds of changes were being made for a future that had yet to occur. All these years later, it becomes obvious that Jobs really does think 9 steps ahead of everyone else, and really does set these kinds of things in motion years before his final plans are seen. >That's probably the direction I am leaning to at this time (unless later >you sell or share your new email program (hint..hint..) :) -chris <http://www.mythtech.net> ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
