What is Rhapsody (operating system)?
'''Rhapsody''' was the name given to [[Apple Computer]]'s next-generation [[operating system]]. Apple got the Rhapsody operating system when they bought [[NeXT]] Inc. from [[Steve Jobs]] for [[$]]425 [[million]].<ref name=MarkoffNYT>{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/05/12/business/rhapsody-s-out-os-x-in-in-shift-of-gear-at-apple.html |title=Rhapsody's Out, OS X In, in Shift Of Gear at Apple |author=John Markoff |date=12 May 1998 |publisher=The New York Times |access-date=7 December 2015 |archive-date=11 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160311064202/http://www.nytimes.com/1998/05/12/business/rhapsody-s-out-os-x-in-in-shift-of-gear-at-apple.html |url-status=live }}</ref> The same year Apple released Rhapsody to [[software developer]]s so they could create versions of their software for the next release of the Apple operating system.<ref name=EdwardsMW>{{cite web |url=http://www.macworld.com/article/1154036/osxorigins.html |title=Looking back at OS X's origins |author=Benj Edwards |publisher=Macworld |access-date=6 December 2015 |archive-date=4 December 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151204143123/http://www.macworld.com/article/1154036/osxorigins.html |url-status=live }}</ref> But a key software vendor, [[Adobe Systems]], did not like Apple's plan for the new OS.<ref name=EdwardsMW/> Without Adobe supporting them Apple decided not to go ahead with Rhapsody.<ref name=EdwardsMW/> Rhapsody was replaced by [[OS X]], scheduled for 1999.<ref name=MarkoffNYT/> == References == {{reflist}} [[Category:Apple software]] [[Category:Operating systems]] {{tech-stub}}