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Re: Expecting Phone Call from Oprah [message #27076 is a reply to message #26982]

Wed, 10 October 2001 11:51

Stein Vidar Hagfors H[1] is currently offline

Stein Vidar Hagfors H[1]
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David Fanning <david@dfanning.com> writes:
[..]
> I haven't been silent, I've just been biting
> my tongue. I think this is just about exactly
> what you can expect when large corporations
> start to make decisions. There is no question
> it is a good business decision, if you are
> considering just the ins and outs of money.

Maybe, at least in the short run, if your assumptions are that you
lose zero PC/Linux/Sun/whatever license buyers in the process. I
believe that to be a very wrong assumption.

> There are, quite frankly, not very many Mac
> users. And I don't even think Apple believes
> the Mac is going to be a big scientific computing
> platform.

Maybe, maybe not. Depends on whether you classify fancy image
processing, GIS applications, medical imaging as "scientific
computing" or not. No, it's not numbercrunching on mathematical
models, but it's certainly computing, and quite scientific!

> When things are flush, it is no problem doing
> fringe projects. But things are not flush at
> Kodak, not by a long shot. I wouldn't expect
> more platforms to bite the dust, but I do
> expect more products to fall into disfavor.
> Who is using River Tools anyway?

I've always wondered about that... :-)
They're probably all Mac users :-(

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		Expecting Phone Call from Oprah By: David Fanning on Tue, 09 October 2001 11:46
		Re: Expecting Phone Call from Oprah By: Stein Vidar Hagfors H[1] on Wed, 10 October 2001 11:51
		Re: Expecting Phone Call from Oprah By: Noam R. Izenberg on Wed, 10 October 2001 04:29
		Re: Expecting Phone Call from Oprah By: David Fanning on Tue, 09 October 2001 15:09
		Re: Expecting Phone Call from Oprah By: Mark Hadfield on Tue, 09 October 2001 14:25
		Re: Expecting Phone Call from Oprah By: David Fanning on Tue, 09 October 2001 14:01
		Re: Expecting Phone Call from Oprah By: Joseph B. Gurman on Wed, 10 October 2001 15:50
		Re: Expecting Phone Call from Oprah By: Struan Gray on Tue, 23 October 2001 07:07
		Re: Expecting Phone Call from Oprah By: Pavel A. Romashkin on Tue, 09 October 2001 13:56
		Re: Expecting Phone Call from Oprah By: Randall Skelton on Tue, 09 October 2001 13:23
		Re: Expecting Phone Call from Oprah By: David Fanning on Wed, 10 October 2001 16:44

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