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>>Also, it was regretfully comunicated to us that there are no current plans
>>for a new updated Mac version of VFP. The cross-platform stuff is intended
>>to be handled via Internet Explorer on the Mac and UNIX.
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>So what's the point of Mr Bill pouring $$$ into Apple if he leaves it virtually crippled by his own corporate policies???
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>Could it be that a crippled Apple, limping along mainly as a graphics design platform, will keep the feds off his back? After all, he can't be a monopoly while there's "another viable platform" around.
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>What a shame that the guy with the most power in the industry is a egocentric megalomaniac.
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>Jen
Actually, I'm told he probably has Asperger's. Anyway, MS also has 85% of the office software market for the Mac. One upgrade will, I believe, more than pay him back the $150 million. Like any of the computer club owners he is an egocentric meglomaniac, just a more successful one, and he didn't get that way by acting stupidly. Also, Apple has agreed to incorporate ActiveX into their platform: this completely blunts the Java initiative -- cross-what-platform?
Hank
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