R.i.p.

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Bighead

Discussion Starter · Aug 15, 2007 (Edited)

Bye bye AppleWorks...

Apple discontinues AppleWorks

Without grand publicity, Apple has decided to stop all development on AppleWorks, its formerly iconic productivity suite. The information was quietly passed on to resellers last week, who were told that the software had reached an "End of Life" stage. Sales have been officially stopped, and trying to visit the AppleWorks website redirects visitors to the page for the recently-launched iWork '08. iWork handles many of the same tasks as AppleWorks (spreadsheets, presentations et al.), while the latter has not been updated for some time.

AppleWorks began its life in 1984, when it was first published for Apple II computers. It persisted in the company's product line through several incarnations, including development by the likes of Claris and Quality Computers, until the last update for AppleWorks 6 was published in 2004. At a point early in its history, it was the best-selling software on any platform, beating rivals such as Lotus 1-2-3.

Originally from MacNN | Print: Apple discontinues AppleWorks

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Macaholic

· #2 · Aug 15, 2007

It served us very well and deserves a nice gold watch for all those years

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eMacMan

· #3 · Aug 15, 2007

Macaholic said:
It served us very well and deserves a nice gold watch for all those years

Since it seems I am at least a year from updating my system. I expect AppleWorks will continue to serve me well. Still the only free or inexpensive database for the mac. I've tried several SQL versions. None are as easy to configure as good old AppleWorks, particularly in situations that do not require a server based DB or relational DBs.

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Macaholic

· #4 · Aug 15, 2007

eMacMan said:
Since it seems I am at least a year from updating my system. I expect AppleWorks will continue to serve me well. Still the only free or inexpensive database for the mac. I've tried several SQL versions. None are as easy to configure as good old AppleWorks, particularly in situations that do not require a server based DB or relational DBs.

Sure! The only thng that'll break Appleworks might be some OS update down the road... but, I doubt that'll happen, and Rosetta will be supported for a long time as well.

Go Appleworks!

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