Re: Even Sun sees the Mac is growing

On May 3, 7:38 pm, George Graves <gmgrav...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Thu, 3 May 2007 16:19:18 -0700, Dr. zara wrote
(in article <L5u_h.194$TG...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>):







"Alan Baker" <alangba...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:alangbaker-09B6A9.14092003052007@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I'm sure Edwin will tell me that this is spam or somehow off topic,
but...

"Sun Microsystems joins porting effort for OpenOffice.org for Mac
Philipp Lohmann

I'm excited to let you all know that as of now Sun engineering will add
its support to the ongoing Mac/Aqua porting effort.

The MacOSX porting history is basically as old as OpenOffice.org itself.
Practically from the start there was the plan to have a native version
for Mac, however as a first step the community decided to produce an X11
port which - since OOo already had several X11 ports from the start -
seemed to be a good way to get a version quickly as temporary solution.
As usual the "temporary solution" tended to be quite long lived (year
2000 bug anyone :-) ?).

You can imagine my excitement when I first heard about renewed efforts
to make an Aqua port reality. And now finally I can spend my paid time
to add to this great effort. At first Herbert Dürr and I will contribute
to the Mac port, however there certainly will be other Sun developers
involved in their areas of expertise when the need arises (e.g. when
problems with the build system arise).

Some may ask: Why is Sun joining the Mac porting project? If you look
around at conferences and airport lounges, you will notice that more and
more people are using Apple notebooks these days. Apple has a
significant market share in the desktop space. We are supporting this
port because of the interest and activity of the community wanting this
port. The new invigorated effort in Mac/Aqua-porting (basically since
CWS aquavcl01) is an obvious indicator. I think this is the right way to
go to make OOo on Mac as good as or even better than the other ports.
Add in the growing Mac community as a whole and suddenly from Sun's
point of view Mac has a higher value since our strategy is to be
multi-platform capable."

apple notebook sales have actually declined.

URL please? Remember, you'r reputation is that everything you post is > a lie.

You're calling him a George Graves.


Without corroborating evidence, this latest post will be regarded as another
one of your lies too. You, essentially must back-up everything you say with
bona fide cites or, it's a lie.

The Mac Advocate double standard rears its ugly head yet again.

.

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