I posted this in comments on Don Park's weblog:

Here's the Steve Kirks plan:

Buy Userland. Keep everyone on the payroll and harness the Dave-force for good, for Apple and Userland of course. Immediately begin to optimize the code for X.3 and integrate with the rest of the products (tie to Radio to local Apache install to serve desktop web and iSync to match content–example only) Manilla carries on as a school product, save the corp stuff for about a year down the road when it runs great on X.3

Frontier and Userland were way ahead of their times. Web page publishing using a database backend, varibles and scripting is something (Apache, MySQL, PHP) we take for granted now. Apple could easily modify the Userland intellectual property to parallel Apple's needs and feed the developer community a new and unique tool that's *cross platform*, too.