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Claris Rumors Abound (1/14/98)
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What the?!... We must say, it came as a bit of a surprise when we started noticing all the rumors about Claris selling off a slew of products and then being reabsorbed into Apple. For example, the buzz at MacOS Rumors is that Home Page may be bought by Netscape, Emailer will either be sold with Home Page or will simply be dropped, Filemaker Pro may be sold to Oracle, and ClarisWorks may be assimilated by Apple and renamed.
Rumors' take on the possible reorganization is that Apple is taking a page from Microsoft's book and is trying to bring their OS and application teams closer together, in hopes of using the strengths of each to bolster the other. Also, since Claris consistently does well financially, being able to list their profits on Apple's main ledger sheet could be incredibly helpful. All in all, it may be a very sound and well-reasoned idea.
Of course, as faithful viewers have no doubt guessed, that interpretation is a bit too staid for our tastes. We personally favor the excellent conspiracy theory put forth by MacTimes, who wonders, what if there was a secret clause to the Apple-Microsoft agreement last August? Like, for example, an "understanding" that Apple would rein in Claris from competing with Microsoft on the applications end of the software market? (Is that a second office suite over there by the grassy knoll?)
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 | | The above scene was taken from the 1/14/98 episode: January 14, 1998: (Sorry—this was before we started writing intro text for each episode!)
Other scenes from that episode: 357: An Extra $2 Million (1/14/98) It's official, now-- the profit that Steve Jobs reported at last week's MacWorld Expo has been posted, and surprise! It's even a little bigger than he said: $47 million instead of 45. The really interesting phenomenon, though, is seeing all the different "spin" imparted on the story by various news sources... 358: Tables Are Turning (1/14/98) That karma wheel just may be taking Microsoft on a downward cycle. In today's episode of "Redmond Justice," the contempt hearing between Microsoft and the Justice Department finished up with the software giant poised precariously on the edge of a million-dollar-a-day cliff, and Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson poking them in the butt with a sharp stick. Okay, maybe it's not quite that dramatic, but it's pretty clear that the judge is just plain out of patience when it comes to entertaining the specious arguments put forth by Microsoft's lawyers...
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