Apple Computer Inc will make a strategic thrust into higher-end professional publishing systems next year, chief executive John Sculley told the Seybold seminar for the publishing industry in San Francisco, putting a very high priority on colour, particularly in desk-top publishing. While Apple will add a great deal of powerful new technology, users will not have to lose the installed base investment they had made in Macintosh systems, he added. You’ll see colour photo publishing… We see this as a key building block as we move to a long-term imaging system plan, he said, noting that over the next 18 months, Apple would add imaging servers – imaging-centric databases with storage and retrieval that can be based on content – to its product line. The first Apple servers will arrive in early 1993, and in a later phase of the 36-month programme, Apple will move to compound document imaging systems. He said the Taligent venture with IBM Corp was progressing well and that the key underlying vision of Taligent was compound document. It will be open to anyone else who wants to use it.
