BYTE on Copland

As one who has been quick to criticize the media for bad reporting with respect to Apple in the past, let me congratulate you on "Copland, Revisited" (November 1996 Special Report). You covered the good and the bad -- as facts, without editorializing.

But while the comparison of Copland, Windows NT, and Unix in your Special Report contained an implicit assumption that they are different beasts, I'm not sure all readers understand this. There seems to be an assumption circulating that a single OS can cover the entire desktop-to-server continuum, one I don't believe is necessarily justified. Given Apple's strategy, one might easily compare an ente rprise environment with Copland desktops and AIX servers against an NT Workstation/NT Server environment. Instead, many people insist on comparing, for example, the Mac OS or Windows 95 against Unix.

Joe Ragosta
joe.ragosta@dol.net