The main reason most software is not carbonised yet, is that the Carbon librairies were not really complete until recently (assuming they are now).
AppleWorks was an exercise for Apple, a test for them to check for the usability of their new library, and a way to find bugs in that library. Now that they have succeeded in making an app fully Carbon compliant, that means that they should be able to correct the kinks in the CarbonLib so that the other programmers can start seriously carbonising too.
For instance, Eudora could not be carbonised until very recently (and I still do not know if it can be now), because some of the calls made by the application had no carbon equivalent. The Eudora "team" (I think it is a team of one) was very unhappy about this to say the least.
This being said, whatever the state of the CarbonLib, whoever is the first to get a Carbon based app out will certainly greatly widen its user base.
Basically, the message to programmers is this : stop complaining and start coding : you
could win big !
