From owner-freebsd-advocacy Fri Feb 19 19:41:36 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from fledge.watson.org (FLEDGE.RES.CMU.EDU [128.2.93.229]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0074E11542 for ; Fri, 19 Feb 1999 19:41:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from robert@cyrus.watson.org) Received: from fledge.watson.org (robert@fledge.pr.watson.org [192.0.2.3]) by fledge.watson.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id WAA01775; Fri, 19 Feb 1999 22:41:24 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 22:41:24 -0500 (EST) From: Robert Watson X-Sender: robert@fledge.watson.org Reply-To: Robert Watson To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Cc: richard@jezebel.demon.co.uk, advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Applixware In-Reply-To: <579.919329574@zippy.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 18 Feb 1999, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > Does anybody care that the delivery date for the Applixware port has > > slipped nine months, days before it was due to be shipped? > > I think 9 months may be a bit overstating the case; I'm not sure who > made the update to the timeline on that page or when they did it, but > as someone who's been watching the Applixware porting project rather > directly, I can say that 9 months is hopefully the very longest it > could possibly take, not the time we're actually hoping for. The port > was stalled for quite some time on other issues which have since been > rectified and I hope to see things moving quite a bit more quickly > now. Applixware is quite *keen* to see this selling and interest in > the product has been quite high - the number of pre-orders we've > gotten has hardly been for nothing, it sent a very clear message to > both Applix and WC that this project needed to be a priority and this > is a large reason why the blocking factors we were dealing with from > the beginning of the applixware port finally got dealt with at all. > Don't lose heart yet, by any means. That's pretty sad--I was hoping to write my next few papers in Applixware instead of latex. As fun as latex is, there are times when I don't want to have to dig through lots of web pages or books to find out how to do something that should be easy :-). Any hope of a public alpha or beta, or a pre-release or something to keep us on the edges of our seats? What I'd really like to see is a piece of presentation software like (or better than) Power Point. Even the UNIX folk around here do live notebook presentations under Windows to get power point slides--doing presentations under FreeBSD with some spiffy piece of software would gain followers instantly. Robert N Watson robert@fledge.watson.org http://www.watson.org/~robert/ PGP key fingerprint: 03 01 DD 8E 15 67 48 73 25 6D 10 FC EC 68 C1 1C Carnegie Mellon University http://www.cmu.edu/ TIS Labs at Network Associates, Inc. http://www.tis.com/ SafePort Network Services http://www.safeport.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message