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[Tom Ritch]

On Friday, July 12, 2002, at 05:11  PM, Mel Pleasant wrote:

> Why not ride those parts of the coattail that you can agree upon as 
> being good, given your definitions of the word good, and turn it into 
> something better than what MS has done with it.  You know, build a 
> better mousetrap?!?
> ...
>   .Net has introduced some new higher-order conceptual level of 
> networking to the marketplace.  It has done so with the underpinnings 
> of "extend."  If Apple can take the good part of .Net and go in some 
> other direction and beat the #@$% out of MS's .Net, as far as I am 
> concerned, more power to them.

Yes, I agree that this is probably what Apple is doing.  Imagine Apple 
embracing and extending software concepts expounded by Microsoft.  I 
expect  one difference I would be Apple software would work more easily 
and more reliably.  I expect another difference would be that Apple 
software would be much less expensive, perhaps free.  Apple is ready for 
a _major_ marketing assault on the enterprise market.  Greatly reducing 
the software cost of information technology will provide a good 
competitive edge.  The non-competition agreement expires in less than 
three weeks.  :o)