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Re: congrats to ardi
>>>>> "Mike" == Michael R Gile <gilem@litecuno.ecse.rpi.edu> writes:
In article <4p1fel$hit@litecuno.ecse.rpi.edu> gilem@litecuno.ecse.rpi.edu (Michael R. Gile) writes:
Mike> I am (slowly) catching up on my magazine reading, and
Mike> happened to pick up my may issue of IEEE Computer. I was
Mike> suprised to see that ARDI and Executor are mentioned quite
Mike> heavily as an opportunity for apple to attack the intel
Mike> market. I sincerely hope that apple reads this article and
Mike> reconsiders a venture with ARDI. However, even if they
Mike> don't, it makes for good press.
Yes. We have a Mac ISV to thank for that. Some Mac only ISVs are
disappointed that they have no way to sell their apps on PCs. On Guy
Kawasaki's "Semper Fi" mailing list there has been a lot of discussion
about allowing MacOS to run on PCs, but the vast majority of it is
founded on ignorance. Apple has been chided in the past for having a
not invented here syndrome and unfortunately it looks like they're
continuing that tradition.
Although we met informally with some members of the MAE group (the
gentleman who invited us to drop by is no longer with Apple) a couple
years ago, we have not had an official invitation to talk to Apple in
all our (soon to be ten) years of existence. That is not due to a
lack of trying on our part. I think that's a shame. We're sending
some copies of Executor 2 beta1 into Apple, although mostly its to
people who aren't in very high places.
In a couple of weeks I'll be at MacHack '96 presenting a paper on
Executor internals and showing off Executor in general. If we can't
wrangle a meeting with Apple out of that presentation we'll just have
to conclude that they don't want to have anything to do with us.
--Cliff
ctm@ardi.com
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