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From: swarren@convex.com (Steve Warren)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Better than Advertising
Keywords: value enhancement
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Date: 19 Mar 90 15:03:38 GMT
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In article <5830@tekig5.PEN.TEK.COM> brianr@tekig5.PEN.TEK.COM (Brian E Rhodefer) writes:
                          [...]
>It would be interesting if Commodore could afford a little
>experiment:  take the same amount of money, and:
>
>1) Hire Lotus to run their (allegedly recoded-in-C) 1-2-3
>   spreadsheet program through an Amiga compiler.
                          [...]
I think the expense here is not the recompiling effort, which
would be a minor one-shot expense.  The big expense is in
packaging, distribution, inventory control (new products must be
incorporated into inventory) and support.  So the publishers of Lotus
would have to figure out what the total expense would be of adding
this product, and balance that against expected revenues, including
any premium CBM might offer as an added incentive.  I'm not saying
it's a lost cause, but I think it would be much more complicated than
simply paying for the porting effort.

Cheers,
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--Steve
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