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CT is Clifford T. Matthews, ctm@ardi.com
David Pollack is dpp@athena.com
and my Internet address is too complicated for me to generate manually...

  CT> I don't think I missed David Gursky's point, but perhaps in my desire
  CT> to make my last post brief (anyone who reads my posts knows what an
  CT> exception that was), I didn't make *my* point clear... <Stuff Deleted>

Fair enough and enough said.

  CT> <Stuff Deleted> Cliff and ARDI's job is to blur the boundaries, so *you*
  CT> can make *your* choice.

Read on...

  CT> If you've watched what we've done with Executor so far, you know what
  CT> you can expect in the future.  Even though I'm a person of principle,
  CT> I'm always afraid that by acting according to principle, I'll dismiss
  CT> something good without trying it.  If you're opposed to Executor "on
  CT> principle", I hope you'll check it out.  It could be the tool that you
  CT> need.

Although I've been working with the NeXT (as well as several other workstations,
notably Sun / Solaris, Apple / Macintosh, and IBM PS/2 / OS/2) over the past
several years, I have only recently begun to work with the NeXT on a more
detailed basis, so I have not been privvy to the history of Executor.  At a
basic level however, IMO, I agree with David Pollock's comment (not quoted) that
if I wanted to run Mac applications on a day-in and day-out basis, I would have
bought a Mac - a consumer will buy a product that they are comfortable using. 
However fine a product Executor is, it has an intrinisic flaw - it makes the
NeXT look like a Mac, and as a consumer, that's not why I bought the NeXT (see
David Pollack's earlier message.)

That being said, I'm not (in principle) opposed to products like Executor that
allow me run Mac applications, it is that I'm opposed to taking the NeXT and
turn it into a Mac.  Ideally, I'd like a product like Executor to give the Mac
application a NeXT look-and-feel, so that not only do I need concern myself with
a single "look-and-feel", but for all intents and purposes, it appears to me
that Excel (as a specific example) is running on my NeXT, just as Appsoft Draw
or Lighthouse's Concurrence products do (as two other specific examples)  [Are
you listening Insignia?  This applies to SoftPC as much as Cliff's product.]

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