Wednesday, August 10, 2005

The people who have seen this technology, who have dived into the details, are hugely impressed. We understand that software vendors are going to do extensive testing. The proof is once you see your application running - a sophisticated application that you never thought could run under translation.

In general, computational performance is going to be around 80 percent of what you can achieve with a natively compiled application. Graphics and interactive performance will be transparent, meaning you won't be able to tell the difference between a natively compiled application and a translated one. You say Transitive does "binary translation."

Rosetta will lower the barriers to getting more software on more platforms. Some companies may be threatened by that, but technology marches forward. The companies that get behind new technologies and find ways to take advantage of them are usually the ones that are successful in the long term. Companies that try to keep new technologies from taking hold in the market are typically the ones that are hurt most ... We're solving an important problem in the industry, and when you do that the various players have to figure out how to adjust their businesses to take advantage of this kind of technology. They do that all the time.