At 12:56 -0700 05/09/2002, Thomas Higgins wrote:
>> Is there a UNIX version of the MultiUser Xtra, by the way? If not, a
>> significant portion of users will not be able to use it.
>
>Nope, not that I'm aware of. That would require a Unix version of
>the player, which we haven't produced.
>
>Why the assertion in this case that a significant portion of users
>won't be able to use my solution if we don't have a Unix version of
>the Xtra or Server?
Actually I was referring just to the server. I've never used it
because it doesn't run on nix. So I can't use it on my web site, and
since pretty much any bright ISP is likely to have relatively few MS
machines, I'm not alone in this. The backbone of the net is UNIX and
not having a version of MUS that can run on a UNIX system is a
serious hobbling of the possible user base.
I really am rather baffled, actually, by Macromedia's apparent total
corporate blind spot about nix. None of the development engines work
on it, and apart from Flash the players don't either. That is
completely incomprehensible to me. UNIX is the most common OS in the
world. For that matter, in the known universe.
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