Apple licenses system to Radius, slashes prices for on-line service

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Apple agreed to license its operating system to Radius Inc, opening the Macintosh market to clones for the first time. Radius will manufacture workstations based on the Macintosh technology aimed at the high-end digital video and color publishing market. It expects to sell the machines for less than $30,000. Analysts predict that the move will not increase Macintosh's market share beyond its current 8.5% in 1995, but the licensing agreement is a good first step. Historically, Apple has refused to license its technology, a strategy that led to a steady decline in market share compared to rival PC makers. Separately, Apple announced that it would cut the access price for its eWorld online information service from $4.95 to $2.95. It also boosted the monthly access subscribers receive from two to four hours. The service has done poorly because Apple only began shipping the service software with Macintosh machines in November 1994. Apple plans to enhance the service with more sound and graphics, provide access to the Internet and make it available to non-Macintosh users.

Software Publishers, Systems Software Pkgs, Operating system, Operating systems (Software), Operating systems, Online information services, Radius Inc., Online information service, Licensing, Price, RDUS

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Clone maker's president quits amid Apple tiff

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Power Computing Pres and COO Joel Kocher resigned, in a move suggesting that the company seeks a softer tone to resolve a licensing dispute with Apple. Power Computing and other clone makers want to extend licensing agreements with Apple on new technologies such as the Common Hardware Reference Platform (CHRP), but Apple recently delayed CHRP certification with compatibles 'until further notice.' Apple contends that CHRP, which connects Mac users to more standard industry parts, does not apply to its existing contract with cloners. Power Computing has joined all other cloners in expressing frustration with Apple's licensing delay. Kocher sharply criticized Apple at the Aug 1997 Macworld Expo trade show and apparently clashed with quieter Power Computing Chmn and CEO Steve Kahng.

Electronic computers, Electronic Computer Manufacturing, Analog & Hybrid Computers, Management, Officials and employees, Computer industry, Microcomputers, Microcomputer industry, Company executive, Computer executives, Company Business Management, Power Computing Corp.

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Adobe achieves partial victory in software war; Apple sets licensing pact with PostScript maker after spurning it in '89

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Adobe Systems Inc and Apple Computer Corp seem to have reached a rapprochement over their earlier squabbles concerning Adobe's PostScript computer printer software. Apple and Adobe have come to a new and expanded agreement under which the two will cooperatively work to develop new products based on the PostScript standard. The announcement is a major victory for Adobe, which looked to be in trouble when Apple, a 16.4 percent owner of Adobe and Adobe's largest customer, announced it would sell its stake in Adobe and join Microsoft Corp in an effort create a competing standard. Observers say the agreement should be viewed as a move to hedge Apple's bets in the printer standard arena, rather than as an endorsement of Adobe's technology.

Standard, Standardization, Contracts, Adobe Systems Inc., ADBE, Printers (Computers), Printers (Equipment), Printer support software, Computer fonts, Font Package, PostScript (Printer software)

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