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Rumor: Wither AppleWorks?
By ron carlson, Insanely Great Mac
January 16th 2003
Jean-Louis Gassee, former Apple wonk and Be Inc founder, has some interesting news for
us
Liberation.fr, an online Frencn journal of a kind, is carrying a scatological piece by
former Apple executive and Be Inc founder Jean-Louis Gassee which discusses, among
other things, his Steveness' state-of-the-Mac address before the gathered houses of
Mac in San Francisco.
Along with a passel of analytical wanderings on current and upcoming Apple products,
Mssr Gassee states that in 2001 Apple hired the coding team behind the GoBe office
suite, which was written for Linux, Windoze and, unsurprisingly, Be OS.
According to a related article on Mac Rumors, GoBe was a widely admired (though it
never gained traction among the sweaty Microsoft throngs) chunk of code.
This once-upon-an office suite reportedly was similar in foundation to Apple's still
humiliating OpenDoc foray in that it supports plug-n-play functionality -- ie you can
interactively build a spread sheet-based tabled into your word processor document
without using a spread sheet application.
AppleWorks' angst
Meanwhile rumors of an AppleWorks refresh circle and circulate, but sightings have to
date been non-existent. The need however for an X-specific rewrite or, at the merciful
least, update is wincingly apparent to all that use the app.
Personally, I think AppleWorks' 7, GoBe 4... whatever is already in the can and that
Keynote is merely one part of that overall package. I think the mothership is offering
Redmond one last kow-tow before unleashing their own suite that's sure to be lathered
in sticky Cocoa and Aqua GUI goodness.
It would seem unlikely to this pundit that Apple would announce a complete refresh of
their own productivity suite concurrently with M$' extension of reduced Office X
pricing. That possibility is all the less likely given that the mothership and the
(egregious) monopoly that Bill built are actually co-conspirators in the Office X
promo...
Where's Appleworks? You make the call!
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