Re: AppleWorks v4.0??

[ltchean@iss.nus.sg (Lim Thye Chean)]

Eric S. Ford (ag471@yfn.ysu.edu) wrote:

: Do you know this as a fact or conjecture?  When one software package states it
: _requires_ a previous version in my mind that suggests a patch rather than a
: completely new version.  This is particularly the case with Appleworks which
: has been repeatedly enhanced through patches.  Your logic, that because QC now
: publishes AW3.0 --> 4.0 will be a whole new Appleworks, is not supported by 
: the facts as I understand them.  There is no mention in either of the articles
: I've read that Appleworks 3.0 "will be included as part of the package", only
: the comment that AW3.0 is required for AW4.0.  Likewise there is no indication
: of a cheaper price for those of us who already have 3.0 and would not need
: that as part of a package.   Since The Works (now called  AW4.0) was in
: development prior to QC becoming the publisher of Appleworks it is unlikely
: that development included a reworking of the essential Appleworks code.  It is
: far more likely that The Works was (and remains) an enhancement and
: consolidation of several prior patches such as those published by JEM.  If
: a genuine upgrade for Appleworks is coming then I suspect it will be the 5.0
: version.

Eric, I think you are wrong. What you are reading is _BEFORE_ Quality has
the right of AppleWorks 3.0. 

Now it is no longer called TheWorks 4.0, instead it will be called AppleWorks
4.0.

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: Eric S. Ford    ag471@yfn.ysu.edu

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