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From: SEWALL@UCONNVM.BITNET (Murph Sewall)
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Subject: Re: Thoughts on //gs Sales
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Date: 10 Jul 88 06:57:43 GMT
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>While I can't necessarily agree with you on all your comments Todd.  I agree
>whole hartedly with the disapproval of the Claris acquisition.  What will
>come of this is little more than delaying a good product from reaching the
>market.

Rumor has it that Claris plans to integrate GS Works into work already
started on the next version of AppleWorks (more likely enhancing GS Works,
as it sure seems that GS Works is far more complete than anything Claris
has been doing by way of Appleworks).  The result to be marketed as
"AppleWorks GS."  It remains to be seen what will reach the market and
how long it will take.

>                              ...Like you my apple is not an educational
>machine.  I use it at home to write software for VMS systems then transfer
>it using KERMIT to the mainframe.  While this is only a small part of what
>I do with my GS I can only say I use it much like many others use their
>MAC's or (dare I say) IBM-PCs.

I sure prefer Apple's keyboard to IBM's but Apple isn't keeping up.
SPSS has announced SPSS-X for the PS/2 (under OS/2) for release in October
(already demo'd a beta version on a 50Z).  Same source (Fortran) as the
mainframe version.  There isn't any reason why that program can't run
on a IIgs (more likely a IIgs+), but I don't expect it'll ever happen.

I wonder why SPSS and SAS haven't been ported to the Mac though.

Methinks in this day of the 25MHz micro (a 33MHz version of the 80386
will be available soon) that Apple better get a little faster than 4MHz
or even the educational market will disappear.

It seems Apple/Claris doesn't know the fairy tale about the Goose that
Laid the Golden Eggs.  For instance, there's "The Spring Developers'
Conference - Apple From the Top Down: Preaching to the Converted" in the
July/August issue of Call-A.P.P.L.E.  Sad, sad, sad - hard as we try to
teach marketing, those who should no better insist on missing the point.
Looks like I'll be getting a PS/2 Model 70 for Christmas *sigh*

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