fleishman-glenn@CS.YALE.EDU (Glenn Fleishman) (04/20/88)
I have heard that Aldus Corp. is holding back on releasing its latest update of PageMaker (3.0) for the IBM because of the Windows vs. Apple lawsuit going on. (PM3.0 works only in Windows 2.0 I believe). Any confirmation? What is the current status of the suit? Glenn I. Fleishman, graphic designer & Mac apologist FLEGLEI@YALEVM.BITNET or through r/Reply "Andy Warhol lives. I think. Maybe not."
bob@allosaur.cis.ohio-state.edu (Bob Sutterfield) (04/21/88)
In article <27586@yale-celray.yale.UUCP> fleishman-glenn@CS.YALE.EDU (Glenn Fleishman) writes: >What is the current status of the suit? Take a look at the debate raging in articles cross-posted between comp.{sys.{apple,mac,ibm.pc},windows.misc}. They are all better places for the discussion than comp.windows.news. -=- Bob Sutterfield, Department of Computer and Information Science The Ohio State University; 2036 Neil Ave. Columbus OH USA 43210-1277 bob@cis.ohio-state.edu or ...!att!osu-cis!bob
RICHER@SUMEX-AIM.STANFORD.EDU (Mark Richer) (04/24/88)
I heard that Borland/Ansa are discontinuing development of a windows version of Paradox. Sounds like the Apple lawsuit is having some impact on developer plans. It would certainly worry me a little. Looks like the recent announcement of the Open Look graphical interface for Unix couldn't be more timely. My current theory is that Unix actually has a chance to become a mainstream OS if things work out the right way. I figure Apple will continue to do well for the next few years, but there is no way their proprietary hardware/software would become the largest installed based. DOS has reached a dead-end with or without MS WINdows, extended memory, etc. OS/2 will replace it as far as IBM and Microsoft are concerned. But OS/2 has a long way to go before it establishes itself and in the meantime the Unix world still has a chance to get its act together if they stay united and get Open Look and other things into the marketplace in a timely fashion. One thing that Unix has going for it is that I don't see how anyone except IBM and Microsoft have a good reason to be thrilled about OS/2 versus the more open, less controlled Unix option. If most of the hardware and software companies join Sun & Co. on the open standards philosophy that would leave the proprietary folks holding the bag eventually. At least that's how the theory goes. One thing that Unix desperately needs besides a interface for the "rest of us" is a way to install and maintain unix networks that is at least no more complicated than the Mac, DOS, or at least OS/2 (I have no idea how complicated things are with OS/2, but if it's a lot easier for normal folks to set up an OS/2 network vs. Unix that would be a big factor to a large market segment) So I strayed from the original topic -- sue me! Mark Disclaimer: This disclaims whatever needs to be disclaimed -------