WordPerfect vs, MS Word (was: Re: [Ti] Re: OpenOffice on Mac)

[Chris Olson]

On Dec 4, 2005, at 2:53 PM, John Griffin wrote:

> BTW, could you not find something in Linux that would fill the gap  
> so you could at least stick with PPC machines?

Not for FrameMaker.  When Adobe bought it they ported it Windows and  
Mac OS (from SunOS).  When Apple released OS X, Adobe never moved it  
from OS 9 -> OS X.  So the only two options to run it on modern  
hardware are Windows or a Sun SPARCstation with Solaris.

Coders and engineers will eventually go to linux on PPC laptops  
because we use them to write PowerPC machine code.  Workstations will  
be going to Windows in our company.  Windows has gotten cheaper to  
support than Mac OS because Apple keeps throwing a new curve ball  
that breaks backwards compatibility every 4 or 5 years.  And every  
time they do, they loose more software vendors.

We simply can't afford Apple's whims any more, and Mac OS will be  
phased out in two years.
-- 
Chris

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