That, in itself, is a death warrant for promising technologies.Īpple developers have had their CD's for about a week now. Your precious Quartz might have changed that, except that it's owned and developed by Apple Computer. What you don't seem to recognize is that X11 survives precisely because of the abominable state-of-the-art in GUI technology (again, on all platforms). Unfortunately, the bulk of graphical computing applications on *all* platforms is adapted to the old, limited model of the original X11. X11 would benefit from a new imaging model, something akin to SVG or PDF, much like Quartz or Display Postscript. There is so much uninformed drivel regarding X11 floating around that zero productive criticism of X11 can actually be accomplished, these days. The ratio of people dogging X11 to people who actually understand X11 hovers around 100:1. Otherwise it uses other primitives like lines, rects, font glyphs, and server-side bitmaps (XPixmaps). Where did you get your information? The X Protocol sends raw bitmaps only in the case of a client server bitmap x-fer request (seminal transfer of an XPixmap, or an XImage XPixmap copy). I think we can do better than blasting bitmaps across the network using a broken security scheme. Apple's business is much more focused than it was, and adding high-end Unix to its traditionally low-tech userspace may be tricky.īut unless Apple are willing to get into more than just selling new boxes to the people that already own Apple boxes, their growth will remain rather stagnant.Īnd besides. They may grab the odd x86 Unix workstation in some environments, but without serious hardware support for servers and storage, they will remain a niche product.īuying SGI would give them an immediate entree to the high end and enable them to fast-forward the Macintosh platform as a low-to-mid server market where vendors like HP, IBM and Dell dominate as well as giving them scalability on the same (long-term, anyway) OS *across* the entire product line. What it mostly comes down is what is Apple going to do to grow their business? Regardless of how cool OS X/Aqua/Carbon/Insert-Buzzword-Here is, they cannot compete on price with x86 and will not get back into suit-n-tie type businesses anytime soon, barring an unexpected MS implosion.Īpple has a hole in its product lineup - they cannot expect to grow a niche market much beyond what they already control. Given SGI's bargain-basement price, do you think that it would be cheaper to buy SGI outright and get the SGI Origin-class hardware outright or do the R&D yourself?
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