06.03.04
Mac
Office 2004 Could Persuade IT Managers To Reconsider Mac
BusinessWeek has published a review of Microsoft's new Mac office
suite, Office 2004. The reviewer, Stephen H. Wildstrom, says that
the newest version of Office for Mac is a good enough corporate citizen
that it could "persuade some corporate technology managers to take
a fresh look at Apple."
From the review:
Bill Gates used to brag that Microsoft made more money from each Macintosh
sold than Apple Computer did. Apple's hardware is now plenty profitable,
but Microsoft software remains an important part of the Mac ecosystem.
Microsoft's latest effort for the Mac, Office 2004, could even persuade
some corporate technology managers to take a fresh look at Apple.
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10g's
OS X Support: Harbinger for Mac Enterprise Growth?
Jeff Jones, director of DB2 information management strategy IBM, said
that, while the DB2 database platform does not currently support OS
X, the company is sensitive to market demand. "We're open to supporting
any platform that represents a significant value to our customers,
as we have demonstrated repeatedly," Jones told MacNewsWorld.
Late last month, Oracle (Nasdaq: ORCL) disclosed that 10g, its flagship
grid-computing database platform, is now compatible with Apple's (Nasdaq:
AAPL) Unix-based Mac OS X . To publicize this news, Oracle and Apple
have jointly launched an international road show -- featuring executives
from both companies -- that will run in five different cities worldwide
over the next several weeks [Blane Warrene, "Apple, Oracle Plan Database
Road Show," MacNewsWorld, May 25, 2004].
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Apple
eMac With SuperDrive
Students, general home users and those who don't want to shell out
more than $1,000 retail for a full-function desktop (or use a Windows
PC) will flock to the new Apple eMac.
The current 1.25-GHz eMac is a vast improvement over the model we
reviewed just 6 months ago. The $999 eMac finally comes with a DVD
burner (SuperDrive), and the hard drive, system memory, and CPU are
at usable levels.
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The Whole Article
Analysts
up Apple rating
A leading Wall Street analyst firm last night upgraded its rating
on Apple Computer, raising estimates too.
Analyst Gene Munster of Piper Jaffray issued a 'market perform' rating
on the company and raised his target price for the company's stock
from $30 to $32. Apple shares closed at $28.06 last night.
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Extensis
announces Portfolio 7, Portfolio Server 7 for Mac OS X
Extensis Inc., today announced immediate availability of its leading
Digital Asset Management (DAM) solution, Portfolio 7 and Portfolio
Server 7 for Macintosh. Portfolio enables photographers, graphic artists
and other individuals and workgroups - from those in small-to-medium
sized organizations to multiple workgroups in global 2000 companies
- to organize, retrieve, repurpose, and distribute digital files quickly.
Portfolio Server also provides instant access to assets across the
Internet and other wide area networks, opening the communication channel
between distributed team members and partner networks, making asset
management and collaboration easier and more efficient than ever before.
"Portfolio 7 for the Mac extends the great strides made in optimizing
the previous version for the OS X platform," said Kevin Hurst, vice
president of Marketing for Extensis in the press release. "While most
DAM solutions are expensive, difficult to deploy, or do not have feature
parity between the Mac and Windows versions, Portfolio leverages a
history in creative design and Mac technology to provide an easy to
learn interface and affordable solution that can be seamlessly deployed
in a matter of hours into an existing workflow."
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The
Mac is Dead, Long Live iPod!
That's the word from a lot of so-called Mac pundits concerning the
news last week that Apple is creating a separate iPod division within
the company. Once again, these guys must be in need of a boost in
readers, because we all know that the easiest way to get those page
views up is to predict the demise of Apple. The Mac Observer's Apple
Death Knell Counter is evidence that a lot of "journalists" recognize
this fact.
So, is Apple dumping the Mac for the iPod? Absolutely, unequivocally,
no! By spinning the iPod into its own division, Apple is ensuring
that iPod development will be as focused as possible to best counter
the upcoming threats from companies like Sony who wish to take a piece
of the iPod pie.
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In Dreamweaver I tried to add a subtle audible
click to the rollovers on my site, but a new window opens
up to play the .wav in a media player. How can I stop that
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I am assuming that I may have to use flash, but I am hoping
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