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Re: Why Apple compare Apache on OS X with IIS on NT

Author:Jim Roepcke
Posted:3/19/1999; 5:09:51 PM
Topic:Why Apple compare Apache on OS X with IIS on NT
Msg #:4319 (In response to 4317)
Prev/Next:4318 / 4320

There won't be a huge mass market for desktop apps (or anything at the $100 price point you describe) for OS X Server. It's a server platform, not a client platform.

But with OS X client, which has Carbon, it won't take long for even the biggest of apps exiting Mac apps to be ported.

Hell, Photoshop (or some big adobe app) was demoed a year ago (almost) running on OS X Server with Carbon libraries, and it took what, 3 weeks to port it? And one of the VPs was involved in the porting, if i remember correctly.

A: Photoshop isn't a $100 app.

B: They can easily sell 50,000 copies of it.

OS X Server is a server OS. It's not OS X, or even close.

People should withhold judgement until they at least SEE the OS X client.

I'm sure anyone would appreciate the same respect and courtesy when they had a product under development.

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