If you would like a "anti-Palladium" view, here is one from Robert Cringely
http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20020627.html On Tuesday, January 7, 2003, at 06:26 PM, Allan Atherton wrote: > Jerry Yeager <jerry at browseryshop.com> wrote: >> Wait until Palladium gets going, then you will be seeing many >> corporations >> leaving Windows for either Linux or Mac desktop systems. ... 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. > > I used Windows all day long for ten years, in a corporate highly > networked > environment with nationwide offices, i.e. the Fed govt. And what you > are > saying does not make sense to me. What is Palladium, and why in the > world > would corporations want to lose their investment in Windows programs > and > Office and isolate themselves? > > After the years of Wordstar and WordPerfect, Word and the other Office > programs prevailed and have spread throughout the world to become the > lingua > franca of business. > > I don't see why corporations would change their OS, all their software > and > their hardware. Aside from the incredible cost and sheer difficulty, > they > would be unable to communicate very well for a long time. They also > use a > lot of very special software for budgeting and management that is has > been > written just for them at incredible cost. > > For documents, translation by MacLinkPlus is no substitute for the true > cross platform transparency of Office. Translation requires software, > updates, progress bars, and cleaning up formatting that does not always > translate so well. The documents that I produced and exchanged in the > business world could be a hundred pages long and highly formatted with > all > kinds of imbedded stuff, taking a huge investment to prepare. One does > not > mess around with "translations". Translations are not trustworthy. > > For communications, the usefulness and power and complexity of > Microsoft > Outlook Exchange is incredible, and I don't think there is anything > like it > in the Mac world. It goes beyond email. > > I just don't think the future of Mac lies in pulling away and > competing with > Office and Microsoft. AppleWorks ... it could go the way of > BeagleWorks. > > Allan Atherton > > > > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will > | be January 28. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. > > > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be January 28. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>.
