It's sort of a one-way process that makes it difficult to do migration and interoperability. If you're doing much rewriting of your code for COM, you can't write to COM there. If you're writing Active Directory applications, Active Directory apps can't run on NT 4.0.
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It looks like they are going to ask developers to have to rewrite applications to use some of the features of the new system. If I'm a developer with a limited budget and am told I'm going to have to make major changes, or even minor changes, to my applications to keep up with Apple's operating system, I'm probably going to write for Windows and not for Mac.Dan Kusnetzky
Apple focuses pretty strongly on innovating by thinking about how people use their products, and also what consumers want from the products. There can sometimes be a gap between those two, and that's where they concentrate.
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Just because an operating environment is available on a volume hardware platform does not necessarily mean that it will become a volume product itself. It all depends upon the portfolio of applications, development tools and services available.
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Apple has been strong in coming out with products based on how people use their products, but part of their success is in going beyond what people want right now. They also think about what people might want in the future.
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This could be just about Oracle buying an installed base they can sell more software and services to. But I don't know if the open-source community feels comfortable being purchased, or if they see Oracle as an acceptable custodian of the code base they have contributed to.
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