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Curl for Mac OS X!

Posted by RMH Jun 3, 2008

Curl announced today that we are out of beta and shipping a full release of the RTE for the Mac OS X! And not just the Intel version but the PowerPC version as well!

As a Mac user myself I'm pretty excited about this because it seems obvious to me that the Mac is making strong in-roads at the Enterprise. Within the next 10 years the desktop will be pretty evenly devided, in terms of market share, between Windows, Mac and Linux. People will be much less concerned with the type of operating systems than with the type of runtime. Today there are a couple of runtimes that appear to have a bright future: Curl (of course), Adobe AIR, and Silverlight (when it migrates from RIA to desktop). There are, of course, others such as Google Gears and Mozilla Prism and they may also survive but my bets are on the three amigos: Curl, Air, & Silverlight. I talk more about the deminishing importance of the desktop operating systems and the rise of the fit client platforms in the article The Next Battle for the Desktop. Kudos to the Curl engineers for making this happen!!

The full press release is here.

You can download the Mac RTE from here.

+ As a clarification this is the RTE not the IDE - we may make the IDE available for the Mac in the future but for no its supported on Windows and Linux. +

Tags: mac, rte


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Jun 5, 2008 1:07 PM Reply Guest Conrad Taylor

Hi, it 's very good to here and I look forward to the IDE. If you're new to Curl like myself, it would good to have an IDE to get started.

-Conrad

Jun 9, 2008 9:29 PM Reply Guest Robert Brown

It doesn't seem to work. I've installed both the RTE 6 and 7. Neither seem to instantiate any of the demos. Instead, only the script is displayed in the browser window. Any suggestions?

Jun 10, 2008 6:23 AM Reply Click to view RMH's profile RMH in response to: Robert Brown

Check out the demos page where you can launch a number of different applications to see Curl in action

http://www.curl.com/products_demos.php

Jun 10, 2008 7:58 AM Reply Click to view rhh's profile rhh in response to: Robert Brown

Rob, I received your e-mail query about your difficulties. I've asked our support organization to get back to you to learn more about how you installed this software so we can figure out what went wrong.

-Bert

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