| 1. | *** |
| 2. | Good morning! |
| 3. | On the opening day of MacWorld Expo in San Francisco, I'd like to make a small Mac-related announcement, certainly nothing of the magnitude that Apple will announce later today, but in our world, it's an important development. |
| 4. | MacWEEK, a unit of Ziff-Davis Publishing, has adopted Frontier as its content management platform for its www.macweek.com website. |
| 5. | http://www.scripting.com/thea/MacWeek.html |
| 6. | ***There are so many lessons here! |
| 7. | First, as we went forward, we stayed customer-driven. Since many of our users are Mac people, it made sense to continue to move the Mac version forward as we moved the Windows product forward. |
| 8. | Second, as a derivative of the above, even though our team is mostly using Windows NT machines to develop, we can move sites like www.macweek.com forward because of the unique cross-platform power that comes from working in a database and scripting environment that's truly cross-platform. When we add a feature to our environment it immediately runs on both Mac and Windows. This is a powerful place to be, giving our community real leverage. |
| 9. | And the third lesson is that history is not predictable. Last year many people thought Apple was headed for oblivion. Now the market is restarted. A big publishing company, Ziff-Davis, is making an investment in Mac publishing technology. And it's a good investment, because, as I've been saying for so many years, there are lots of important publishing-oriented things you can do on Macs that you can't do anywhere else. |
| 10. | ***Thanks! |
| 11. | Finally, thanks to MacWEEK for trusting us with its web presence. This is an important milestone. We look forward to working with them for many years to come. |
| 12. | ***Dave Winer |