At 11:11 05/04/2001 -0400, Phillip M. Jones, C.E.T. wrote:
>"Simon P. Lucy" wrote:
> >
> > At 09:13 05/04/2001 -0400, Phillip M. Jones, C.E.T. wrote:
> >
> > >"Simon P. Lucy" wrote:
> > > >
> > > > It isn't a lame excuse. I don't hate any platform, but the Mac
> platform,
> > > > for me at any rate, isn't commercially viable as a development
> > > > platform. Why should I invest a couple of grand in a platfom that
> isn't
> > > > going to return me anything?
> > >
> > >Why isn't there any comercial viability.
> >
> > I have one client that has Macs, they use them for catalogue layout and are
> > generally happy and religious about them. All of their office systems run
> > on a PC network, they've not even got around to networking the Macs into
> > the same network because there is no cross over. None of the Mac users get
> > involved in the office systems and none of the rest of the staff need
> > anything on the Macs. Sharing the printers is about all they would win and
> > I think they prefer not having to share them.
>
>They could share them over ethernet (BTW Mac's G series have at least
>10baseT bult in, the G4's use 10/100 base T. and the newest have the 1
>gb ethernet standard buit in)
Well of course they could, they don't want to.
> >
> > >There are only two (Appleworks and MicroSoft Word) Word Processing
> Programs.
> >
> > Usable word processors on PCs are pretty light on the ground as well.
>Word, WordPerfect, AmiPro are three I can think of.
AmiPro became WordPro and has generally disappeared from
sight. Wordperfect is the perfect example of a one product company that
got bought by another one product company (Novell) that screwed both
organisations and ended up being given away to Corel. Win32 development on
it seems to have stalled, most Wordperfect users I know still prefer the
old DOS version (or the old Unix version), and keep chugging away on that.
> >
> > >There is only one comercial Spreadsheet program for the Masses MicroSoft
> > >Excel.
> >
> > Lotus has pretty much lost the plot in relation to spreadsheets, so Excel
> > is about it on Win32.
> >
> > >There is only two highend Drafting programs for Mechanical and
> > >Electronic Engineering.
> > >Pne of them had shelved the Mac version for ten years. (Article in
> MacWorld).
> >
> > Autodesk seems to have recovered most of the ground it lost. The other PC
> > CAD products are for the most part marginal. There is a strong set of 3D
> > modelling and manipulation products, but then MS doesn't really make much
> > effort there.
>
>I believe it was AutoDesk that just come back in the MAC market.
I think AutoDesk had architecture problems with PowerPC, Apple's falling
market share probably didn't help.
>Heck even Printshop Deluxe which originally started as an Apple II
>program then went to Mac has deserted us and gone to PC's only.
Hmmmm doesn't that suggest something to you?
Simon
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