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January, February, March
Hypertext Chronicle of the Apple NeXT Merger (Dec. 22 - Jan.3)

3/5/97

Apple News

• Report says Macintosh OS sales up at dealerships (PC WEEK)
• Sales of Apple Macintosh, clones rise (Yahoo! WSJ)
• News: March 14 deadline for Apple layoffs (MacWEEK)
• CalPERS to Apple: Shape up (News.com)
• What's NeXT? (03/25/97) (PC Magazine)
• News: Tempo's official name: Mac OS 8 (MacWEEK)

Technology News

• Cyber-communication impacts copyright law (03/04/1997) (SJ Mercury)
• Dave's World: Dave Winer interview (Amp Magazine)
• Fistfights from the future (News.com)
• IBM Aptiva Anticipates Family-Server Computing (NY Times) Could this be what the home network computer will turn out to be? Cheap terminals connected to a central "furnace" computer.

3/3/97

Mac News

• The Acid Test: Rhapsody: A Developer's Perspective (Macuser)
• News: Rumors fly as staffers brace for Apple cuts (MacWeek)
• Apple resolves false ad claims (News.com)
• Amelio courts software makers (News.com)
• Chorus of Mac users drown writer in e-mail (Detroit News)
• PC WEEK: Apple saga a 'tragedy,' says former exec (pcWeek)

Just for Fun

• Don's Amazing Puzzle (DaveNet
• Transparent Eyeball (Forbes)

2/27/97 9:15pm

• Cheerful guerrilla - Guy Kawasaki (Red Herring)
• Apple and Mac: two hearts in one company by John Sculley (Red Herring)
• What's Next at Apple? - March, 1997 (Red Herring)
• Real World: Dave Winer interview (NewMedia)
• This Web is Free (DaveNet)
• Online Sites to MTV: I Want My Attribution (Wired News)
• Right-Sizing the Net - or Yahoo Redux? (Wired News)

2/26/97 10:45am

• People: Does Amelio know what he's gotten himself into? (upside)
• UPSIDE.COM: Realware: David Coursey's analysis of Apple's Next OS (upside)
• Apple's Next Step (LAN Times)
• Between The Lines: Avie Tevanian interview (MacUser)

2/25/97

Mac News

• The Acid Test: Rhapsody: A Developer's Perspective (Macuser)
• News: Rumors fly as staffers brace for Apple cuts (MacWeek)
• Apple resolves false ad claims (News.com)
• Amelio courts software makers (News.com)
• Chorus of Mac users drown writer in e-mail (Detroit News)
• PC WEEK: Apple saga a 'tragedy,' says former exec (pcWeek)

Just for Fun

• Don's Amazing Puzzle (DaveNet)
• Transparent Eyeball (Forbes)

2/24/97 10:50pm

• Newsmakers: Ellen Hancock interview (news.com)
• Will exec shuffle bruise Apple? (SF Chronicle)
• Apple calls report of layoffs speculation (Reuters)
• Dwindling group of loyalists won't accept Mac's mortality (Detroit News)

2/23/97 11:55pm

• Market Analysis: Studies clash over strength of Mac sales in education (MacWEEK)
• Opportunity cost: Apple and the education Market (WIRED 4.11)
• Q and A with Steve Wozniak (SJ Mercury)

2/22/97 1:00pm

• Crack a Mac's server has been uncracked for CrackCounter days. Crack comments.
• Newest MS server not secure (news.com)
• Being Kind to the Mac (DaveNet) it's worth reading the mail on this article.
• Hancock says she's not quitting (news.com)
• 40% Layoff Rumors Fly At Apple / Also, speculation about Steve Jobs (SF Chronicle)
• With stock slipping, is Apple ripe for the picking? (ZDnet)
• Wired News: Bandwidth at the End of the Rainbow
• MST OS Wars (MacSciTech)

2/18/97 10:00pm

• Blame Media, not Apple, for Rhapsodic confusion (MacWEEK)
• Apple strategist quits; bigger layoffs loom (USA Today)
• Apple goes after allies (news.com)
• Amelio shows brave face in Japan (news.com)

2/19/97 12:54am

• Yahoo! - Apple executive VP Landi resigns
• Yahoo! - Apple Announces Next Step to Support New Streamlined Organization
• Lapped, and Trying to Get Back on Top (Washington Post)
• Feature: Apple's OS Double Feature (MacUser)
• The Gorey Details: Lemmings (MacUser)
• TV Meets the Web (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox)
• 02/24/97 A WAY OUT OF THE WEB MAZE (BusinessWeek)

2/17/97 10:45pm

• Big Mac magazines managing to survive (The Business Journal of San Jose)
• There's a MUG Out There With Your Name on It (LA Times)
• Intel's new notebook strategy (News.com)
• 3.3.97 LETTERS TO FORTUNE
• Jamming: The Art and Discipline of Business Creativity
• Forbes (01/27/97) The General Patton of software

2/16/97 9:45pm

• MacWEEK Insider: RenderMan Rhapsody (MacWeek)
• Restructuring Drives Out 3 Apple Execs (San Francisco Chronicle)
• Interview With Heidi Roizen (Interactive Week)
• Wired News: Crack a Mac For Fun and Profit (Wired News)
• 3.3.97 SOMETHING'S ROTTEN IN CUPERTINO (Fortune)
• GA: Rhapsody OS to draw on hybrid imaging model ( MacWeek)

2/13/97 11:41pm

• Apple gives a glimpse of its future products at Demo (InfoWorld)
• NEWS.COM - Rumor Mill
• Apple execs leave; Jobs moves in
• Apple Needs a New CEO

2/12/97 11:00pm

• Canary in a Coalmine (DaveNet)
• More OS details revealed (MacSense)
• An interview with Be's Gassee (Upside)

2/11/97 10:50pm

• If Intel's So Great, Why Have Analysts Suddenly Soured on It? (San Francisco Chronicle)
• Apple stock rated best of worst (News.com)
• Apple to name Rhapsody licensees (news.com)
• Is there a new digital economy of ideas? (The Red Herring)
• Apple Expands Commitment to Multilingual Computing (Yahoo!)
• Apple will spend more for Next (news.com)
• Is there still hope for Apple? (WebReview)

2/10/97 11:30pm

• Heidi Roizen Leaves Apple (DaveNet)
• Apple loses link to developers (news.com)

2/9/97 11:40pm

• Amelio: Trying to do what's right (San Francisco Examiner)
• Apple says Rhapsody will not run on Intel (PC Week)
• Confusion reigns on Apple OS (News.com)
• Microsoft Pulls out of Deal With Apple: No NT for PowerPC (San Francisco Chronicle)
• Amy Wohl: Can Apple Implement? (DaveNet)
• With Apple So Cheap, Where Are All the Value Investors? (San Francisco Chronicle)
• NeXT's WebObjects to give Apple enterprise foothold (MacWeek)

Jan. 29, 1997

• Metrowerks tool to speed porting- Macweek
• Netscape at crossroads - News.com
• Sour Year for Apple -- Sales Tumble 30 Percent in U.S. - SF Gate
• Amelio turnaround not turning - SF Gate
• Apple pitches for big blue clone - USA Today

Jan. 27, 1997

• Macs in the media - Macsense
• The Revolutionaries - SJ Mercury
• IBM stock plummets - News.com
• Undercover columnist cases Comp City - The Netizen
• Not the Be-all, end-all for Mac - The Australian Online
• Amelio blows chance - Computer Reseller News
• Apple's response to Computer Reseller News - Apple PR

Jan. 24. 1997

• Welcome to Apple Developer World - Apple
• Ellen Hancock at the Upside Conference - Upside
• Apple sees a future in software - New.com
• Apple executive sees promise in software -Reuters

Jan. 23, 1997

• You heard it here first: Apple's a buy - MSNBC
• APPLE'S NEXT MOVE MISSES THE MARK - Fortune
• Microsoft as Baby-Snatcher: How Redmond Hopes to Kidnap Java - ZDnet
• Apple Clarifies Next Step - TechWeb

1/22/97

• A new Frontier Newspage tool - DaveNet
• Why Apple Always Had A Bitter Taste to IT - ZDnet
• Mac users wage holy war - ZDnet
• Be takes lone path after Apple fallout - ZDnet
• Be says the future is now - News.com
• Apple and AOL Search for Solutions - Wired News
• Apple Braces for More Restructuring - Wired News
  

1/18/97

• Apple Eyes Java for Key OS Role - Macworld
• Apple weathers ratings cuts - News.com
• Apple's Next Step - MacUser
• Critical now for Apple to hear what users need - MacWeek
• TjL's List of NeXTStep Info
• Lane Westland's Rant - Internet Macintosh Users Group
• Macworld's Apple confidence poll
• Famous People that use Macs
• Apple braces for more restructuring - Wired News
• Apple Announcements I'd like to see - DaveNet Mail

1/16/97

• Apple loses 96 cents a share - TechWeb
• Loss mars Amelio's Apple polish - News.com
• Reuter's Apple news - Yahoo
• Apple going back to basics - SJ Mercury
• Second Survey complete -DaveNet

1/14/97

• Another DaveNet Developers Survey
• One customer saved - Upside
• The Net is the key to Apple's hopes - Upside
• Jobs, Amelio: The Two Faces of Apple - Upside
• Apple's Amelio: Next six months are critical - PCweek
• Next up for Apple: Saved by Unix? - SF Examiner
• Mac lovers fear Jobs' return means loss of current system - Wisconson Journal
• Dan Gillmours's top ten things Apple should do - SJ Mercury
• Why Windows is important - Windows Magazine

1/7/97

• Chicago Tribune forum - read the results of Guy Kawasaki's holy war.
• SJ Mercury forum - How to revive Apple
• Apple CTO sketches OS plan - Macweek

1/6/97

• Another rant from the Chicago Tribune - apprently the author doesn't like Guy Kawasaki.
• Sell What You Have - DaveNet
• Apple Is Out To Tinker With NeXT'S "Right Stuff" - business week. rumor
• Apple stock plummets - news.com
• More companies working on NeXT-Mac transitions - MacSense
• Developers want details - news.com
• what NeXT means for webmasters - Net Professional Magazine

1/5/97

• This Fish's opinion - IMUG

1/4/97

• Don Crabb on the myths of the NeXT merger - Chicago Sun_Times. via The MacResource Page
• DaveNet reports that Gil Amelio, Steve Jobs, and former CEO John Scully were rumored to have been seen having coffee together last week. Here's what they talked about.
• Apple Poised to Challenge Windows NT - ZD Anchordesk
• NeXT can give Apple new OS now, Be couldn't - MacWeek.
• Where do you want to go NeXT - Tripod.
• No More Macintosh? Seattle Times - a copy of the infamous Chicago Tribune article. Dec. 29
• NeXT chapter for Mac OS - MacWeek
• Buyout redefines platform around NeXT foundation - MacWeek
• Mac developers hold judgment, await OS details - MacWeek
• Be reemerges from the shadows - News.com
• How Apple Took Its NeXT STEP - BusinessWeek. Also a timetable of the deal and a NeXT commentary.
• News: Apple predicts Q1 loss - MacWeek
• Apple losses may top $100 million - News.com
• DaveNet/MacWeek Developers survey
• Apple exposes all of its fears in SEC filing - MacWeek