The Psystar Rebel EFI might be a terrific piece of software, but it doesn't seem ready for retail consumption yet.
It started out exclusively as an easy-to-use desktop distribution, but has since added advanced server functionality, pioneering cloud computing integration, and sponsored an awful lot of terrific open source software development.
The camera software is terrific.
Sure, iTunes software is terrific, but the "Ping" social network simply never caught on.
The errors are tiny but infuriating, the tsetse flies of Windows: "I'll see you next week" becomes "Jill see you next weeks," and "This software is terrific" becomes "this software is trifle".
Siebel, the sales-automation software firm, has many terrific things going for it, including CEO Tom Siebel, who may be the best of the 1995-2000 lot.
This is a terrific example of the power of open source software development.
More important, most small businesses use cable modem broadband access, so a Microsoft service would provide a terrific Trojan horse from which to sell its business software to those customers, according to Davenport & Company analyst Drake Johnstone.
Steve Taffe, manager of instructional strategy at MECC, a developer and publisher of educational software, explained his excitement about the Classic: "[it] is terrific – both because it's a Mac and because of that low price.
Maybe the new economy, with IT, software and the Internet, will make the old economy obsolete, but if this happens, there will be a terrific profit deflation for all companies, new and old.
