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Re: RSI CEO Open Letter To Our Macintosh Customers [message #27367 is a reply to message #27293]

Wed, 17 October 2001 14:03

Mark Hadfield
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From: "Randall Skelton" <rhskelto@atm.ox.ac.uk>
> On Tue, 16 Oct 2001, Matthew Powell wrote:
>
>> RSI CEO Open Letter To Our Macintosh Customers
>> October 16, 2001
>
> [snip]
>
>> Despite our best intentions and commitment, the hard facts
>> of our revenue from the Mac platform combined with the high
>> cost of supporting OS X with a separate code base led to the
>> decision that going forward with the Mac OS X release would
>> not only be unprofitable for RSI, it would jeopardize the
>> quality of support for our core platforms....
>
> This leaves me weary about the support for other OS's... What
> are the 'hard facts of revenue' for some of the other *nix platforms?

My thoughts exactly.

> Admittedly,
> support for Linux, IRIX, Solaris, HPUX, and AIX, doesn't require as
> significant a re-development as Mac OS X (aqua) does.

No, but neither does support for Digital Unix (or whatever they call it
these days) and they've dropped that.

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		RSI CEO Open Letter To Our Macintosh Customers By: Matthew Powell on Tue, 16 October 2001 10:30
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		Re: RSI CEO Open Letter To Our Macintosh Customers By: Mark Hadfield on Wed, 17 October 2001 14:03

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