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Re: Expecting Phone Call from Oprah [message #27119 is a reply to message #26982]

Tue, 09 October 2001 14:01

David Fanning
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Registered: August 2001

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Randall Skelton (rhskelto@atm.ox.ac.uk) writes:

> Any comments from a long-time RSI man regarding the dropping of Mac OS X?
> I seem to recall you warning of some changes when Kodak took over.
> Nevertheless, you've been rather silent on this point.
>
> Oh yes, given the lack of Macintosh support in future IDL releases, I have
> one, slightly used, copy of your 2nd ed. book that I am willing to sell.

"Slightly used"!? You must not write many IDL programs.
Mine is dog-eared. :-)

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.
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.

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?

Anyway, I think this is probably a sad day
for Dave, Ali, and the other good guys at
RSI, for whom money was never the most
important thing. Their number one goal--
always--was producing quality software
for scientists. I'm glad I'm not there
anymore.

Cheers,

David

P.S. Let's just say I have the same feeling
in the pit of my stomach as I did when Office
Depot came into town and put all those
Stationary stores out of business. :-(

--
David W. Fanning, Ph.D.
Fanning Software Consulting
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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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