Apple Developers Deliver Native Mac OS X Support

Apple today announced thatdevelopers have now delivered more than 2,500 native Mac OS X applicationsand support for the most popular digital devices sooner than expected,enabling the Mac community to accelerate its transition to Mac OS X.

“Adobe has five great Mac OS X applications shipping and with Photoshoparound the corner our customers should switch to Mac OS X today”, said Bruce Chizen, CEO, Adobe. “Apple has done an incredible job in quickly making Mac OS X the best operating system for users and developers. Adobe is dedicated to being the premier developer of Mac OS X applications this year”.

“By tightly integrating the power of Office with Mac OS X, we've been able to create an incredibly compelling upgrade for our Mac customers”, said Kevin Browne, general manager of the Macintosh Business Unit at MicrosoftCorp. “Office v. X is getting rave reviews from press, and amazing response from customers. Macintosh users who buy Office v. X will love being able to work in the Mac OS X environment all the time”.

“Kodak's EasyShare camera and dock is defining ease-of-use in consumer digital photography”, said Willy Shih, president of Digital and Applied Imaging, Eastman Kodak. “Mac OS X's plug-and-play architecture makes importing your digital photos from a Kodak EasyShare camera a breeze, and we will continue to work with Apple to help consumers get even more enjoyment out of their treasured photo memories”.

“Administrative, content management and asset management systems need anenterprise-class database solution and Mac OS X provides an excellentopportunity”, said Dr. Raj Nathan, senior vice president and generalmanager, Sybase Enterprise Solutions Division. “We are currently working tomake Sybase OpenClient SDK available on Mac OS X later this spring and willfollow with our enterprise database server (ASE) later in the year. WithApple's strengths in the education and creative professional markets, it issimply smart business for us to bring Sybase to the Mac”.

“Mac OS X is the ideal operating system for Mathematica. It combines the tworoots from which Mathematica grew: UNIX and Macintosh”, said Theodore Gray,co-founder of Wolfram. “The stability and power of Mac OS X provides theultimate environment for data analysis, symbolic computation, number-crunching and plotting in the most comprehensive collection of functionsavailable anywhere”.

“Corel and procreate Macintosh customers can adopt Mac OS X version 10.1knowing the platform is rock solid and our creative applications runnatively. Our aggressive support of Apple's next-generation operating systemis a testament to our commitment to our customers and is one of the bestbusiness decisions we could have made”, said Derek Burney, president and CEOof Corel Corporation. “Corel has delivered more premier graphicsapplications to this outstanding operating system than any other majorvendor. In fact, Mac OS X was an inspiration when we introduced procreate, anew line of software specifically designed for creative professionals. Wesee the demand with our customers and are steadfast in our commitment todeveloping more native applications moving forward”.

“Mac OS X version 10.1 and Nikon Coolpix digital cameras work together toprovide the end user with high-quality, easy-to-access images”, said JerryGrossman, vice president of marketing for Nikon Inc. “Mac OS X supports thecomplete line of Nikon Coolpix digital cameras right out of the box, makingit easy for consumers to transfer, edit, store and share images on theirMac”.

“With Mac OS X version 10.1, Apple has made an already impressive operatingsystem even better”, stated Richard Zulch, chief technical officer at DantzDevelopment Corporation. “The features, performance, and stability of Mac OSX v10.1 have paved the way for us to complete Retrospect, and we will soongive customers a world-class backup application for Apple's elegant andpowerful new operating system”.

“As a leading provider of Mac-connect peripherals, HP is proud to offer afull range of Mac OS X native solutions”, said Hugh Amick, program manager,HP Mac-connect. “HP deskjet and HP laserjet printer drivers are built intoMac OS X, which gives customers true ‘plug and print' simplicity withoutinstalling any additional software. By providing Mac OS X native solutionsfor our photo printers, digital cameras and all-in-one products, we areenabling our customers to take full advantage of the power, elegance andsimplicity of Mac OS X”.

“Palm takes full advantage of Mac OS X version 10.1 to provide improvedstability, accelerated launch time and Mac-only features including controlcapabilities within the Dock to our customers”, said Todd Bradley, COO,Palm, Inc. “We see the Mac as a strategic platform for Palm because we sharea common vision of the digital lifestyle by focusing on mobility and ease ofuse”.

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