Wait until Palladium gets going, then you will be seeing many
corporations leaving Windows for either Linux or Mac desktop systems.
OpenOffice has started making serious waves, which could get bigger. A
serious AppleWorks upgrade (rather than update) would put Apple in well
with the corporate users who would still be able to use the .doc format
for quite some time. As it is now, AppleWorks can translate (with the
help of MacLinkPlus for OS-X) many of the .doc files.
Jerry
On Monday, January 6, 2003, at 06:03 PM, Allan Atherton wrote:
> Jerry Yeager <jerry at browseryshop.com> wrote:
>> ... There has been some very serious speculation about the future of
>> AppleWorks... Maybe it will see that serious upgrade that will put it
>> as the
>> Office killer that it certainly could be. Or maybe Apple will keep
>> waiting to
>> see how relations with Microsoft go....
>
> I hope the relatons go OK. I don't see how AppleWorks can be an Office
> killer, because Office exists mainly in the PC world beyond Apple's
> control.
> I don't see how the present transparent cross-platform nature of
> Office Mac
> could be replaced by Claris Translators or Xtend or MacLinkPlus Pro,
> all of
> which I still have in OS9.
> If Microsoft were to drop Office Mac, I am afraid it would be the end
> of
> Macs except as backroom niche machines. I would certainly have to
> throw in
> the towel.
>
> Allan Atherton
>
>
>
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