Article: Steve Jobs, NeXT, and the Mac OS. (Apple's acquisition of NeXT Software) (State of the Mac) (Company Business and Marketing)(Column)

Drama, Questions, and Tentative Answers on Apple's New OS

You can't say Apple isn't an interesting company. Apple's history is more like a soap opera than a corporate biography. In the previous episode viewers were anxiously awaiting the acquisition of Be so that Apple could lay claim to a new operating system t o replace the recently failed Copland OS. Be is the brainchild of Jean-Louis Gassee, the onetime Apple bad boy who filled the personality vacuum created by Steve Jobs when he left the company in 1985. But at the eleventh hour, none other than Steve Jobs h imself returned to Apple, and with him came Next, which will provide the Mac's new operating system and ...

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