Prediction: Just you wait ...

[Banana Nut Bread]

As of June 30, 2003, Microsoft will cease supporting Win98 and NT4. Microsoft is of course wringing their collective hands at the possibilities for upgrade dollars ..

But Wait .... His Steveness might have other plans ...

In May, Steve will announce the rest of the "package" that started with Keynote today ... AppleWorks will become AppleOffice (or somesuch name), integrating Mail, iCal,iSync,Word processing, Spreadsheet, Keynote, and possibly a database app, just in time to start a new wave of "Switcher" ads targeted at those who have just been abandoned by Microsoft ..

"Going to have to upgrade anyway? Why not test drive a Macintosh today at one of our 50+ retail stores and see what we can offer you..."

You never know ... :)

[Banana Nut Bread]

Additional food for thought ...

Looking for an Excel killer? I'd be willing to bet you shot of Glenlivet that Lotus would be more than willing to sell Apple the source code for the Lotus Improv spreadsheet that was done for the NeXT box. If memory serves, it was actually sort of cool, particularly the way you could move rows and colums up and down to change the view of the spreadsheet ...


Hmmmmmm....

[stunned]

Unless this package is comptabile with Office, this idea will not work. U cant expect the 5% of MAc users to just communicate with themselves and not with the rest of the 95% who uses office. And this is assuming all MAc users use this package.

This just won't work.

[Arbernaut]

That's the point - it will be comptible with office, just like Keynote can import and export Powerpoint.

[giant]

It seems more likely that it will be a variant of open office than appleworks

[Paul]

<a href="http://forums.appleinsider.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=3;t=002096#000004" target="_blank">mypost from here</a>

[quote]Originally posted by Paul:
<strong>Woah....
<a href="http://www.apple.com/macosx/x11/" target="_blank">http://www.apple.com/macosx/x11/</a>
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<a href="http://porting.openoffice.org/mac/ooo-osx_downloads.html" target="_blank">http://porting.openoffice.org/mac/ooo-osx_downloads.html</a>
( <a href="http://whiteboard.openoffice.org/screenshots/mac_shots.html" target="_blank">http://whiteboard.openoffice.org/screenshots/mac_shots.html</a> )

does the apple version of X11 mean that OpenOffice will be aquafied?

How hard is it for the casual user (me) who knows NOTHING about linux and very very little about UNIX to install these beasts?

the next 6 months are going to be interesting...

will MWNY hold a demo of OpenOffice during the keynote??</strong><hr></blockquote>

[BuonRotto]

pro-level database = FileMaker. Otherwise, I think any database will be more specific to their purpose in a given application.

[Scott]

Too bad it depends more on the hardware and not the software. Apple doesn't make a mac that corporations want to buy. That means no market growth.

[nebcon65]

The hardware may well come later this year. I would also suggest that in keeping with Apple's use of open source software that they could also build a nice GUI for MySQL complete with form authoring that would probably make quite a splash and would compete with Access quite nicely.

[k_munic]

you mentioned something very interesting, from mpov:

"In May, Steve will announce the rest of the "package" that started with Keynote today ... AppleWorks will become AppleOffice (or somesuch name), integrating Mail, iCal,iSync,Word processing, Spreadsheet, Keynote, and possibly a database app, just in time to start a new wave of "Switcher" ads targeted at those who have just been abandoned by Microsoft ..

when you listen to SJ keynote carefully, he said it was the wish of many users to integrate the iApps - they are still solo-usable, but all together they are more then the sum of all parts.

mayby, this is a hint for future Apple-branded office tools: not the big master all-in-one wonder, but many tiny apps, you can use and handle as you like...-

the date may is a little late for me, but we'll see. good point of you!