<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span"><DIV><DIV>On Apr 7, 2006, at 1:57 PM, rob morris wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Helvetica">There are beta tests running now..I am unable to say more but </FONT><FONT face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Helvetica">some of you can guess I may be involved with that...and the target dates and </FONT><FONT face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Helvetica">progress as well as what Adobe has said publicly is no where close to what </FONT><FONT face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Helvetica">you are saying Chris.</FONT></P> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV>For people considering moving to MacTel and expecting there's some magical stuff happening at Adobe as the above quote insinuates......<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Scott Byer, an engineer working on the Photoshop port posted some information to his blog a few days ago:</DIV><DIV><A href="http://blogs.adobe.com/scottbyer/2006/03/macintosh_and_t.html">http://blogs.adobe.com/scottbyer/2006/03/macintosh_and_t.html</A></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><quote></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><I>From having projects with large numbers of files that open quickly, to having compact debugging information, to having stable project formats that are text-merge-able in a source control system. These are things XCode is playing catch-up on. Now, Apple is doing an </I></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><I>amazing</I></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><I> job at catching up rapidly, but the truth is we don't yet have a shipping XCode in hand that handles a large application well.</I></FONT></FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><I><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"></quote></SPAN></I></FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"> Sorry again.</BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV>Would you please quit apologizing? <B><I>I'm</I></B> the one waiting for an information update this time. Please enlighten me.<FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><I><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><BR></SPAN></I></FONT></FONT><DIV> <SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">-- </DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Chris</DIV></SPAN> </DIV></SPAN></BODY></HTML>