No doubt you’ve heard the news. The two major players in graphics software, Adobe Systems and Macromedia, have agreed to become one. The all-stock transaction, in which Adobe will acquire Macromedia, is valued at $3.4 billion and requires both shareholder and regulatory approval before it is finalized. The entire process will take at least six […]

Now maybe the stories that Apple had declared Tiger Golden Master on March 31 were true after all. Apple has announced that its next generation operating system, also known as 10.4, will ship on April 29, so it all begins to make sense. I’m not going to begin to cover the new features, since you’ve […]

The other day I read an article comparing the NeXT operating system to today’s Mac OS X. It is interesting to see the obvious resemblances, such as the Preview application, a Dock and a file viewer (they didn’t call it Finder, or risk an Apple lawsuit) that sported a column view feature. At the same […]

Did I get your attention? All right, some of you are no doubt poised to pounce on me because of this outrageous statement, and I wouldn’t blame you if I believed it. But I don’t! Actually I believe quite the opposite, that the issues of performance and price are not relevant, and haven’t been in […]