Reports of Its Death have Been Exaggerated
Apple has evidently backed down from its plan to have all its systems boot only OS X come January (via [lomo]blog).
“To accommodate a minority of our pro customers still running Mac OS 9 applications such as QuarkXPress, Apple will continue to offer a 1.25GHz dual-processor Power Mac that will boot into Mac OS 9 until June,” Apple said in a statement.