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From: jlh@noether.math.purdue.edu (Jeffrey Hensley)
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Subject: Re: Commodore & Universities
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Date: 24 Jul 90 18:37:41 GMT
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In a previous message, BARRETT@owl.ecil.iastate.edu (Marc Barrett) 
writes:

>   The Amiga has no software available for it because there is no market
>   for Amiga software.  As much as I'd like to see such software as MATLAB
>   and Mathematica ported to the Amiga, this will likely never happen.  If
>   the developers of these programs were to port them to the Amiga, they would
>   only sell three or four copies, making it not worth the effort of these
>   developers.

> Until Commodore starts getting serious with marketing the Amiga at
> (and to) Universities, this situation will not change.  And by 'getting
> serious' I do not mean putting ads in a couple of school newspapers
> and pushing the Amiga at a couple of Universities.  I mean taking the
> Amiga and actively showing it at every major University in the country.
> The reason that Apple has the market penetration that they have is
> because they have done (and continue to do) precisely this, and
> Commodore must do the same.  Commodore cannot expect to enter this
> market by osmosis, expecting the Amiga to magically become popular
> as a machine for scientific and research uses with no effort.  It
> will take hard work (and lots of it) from Commodore for this to
> happen.

Will you ever stop ranting about marketing strategies??  I am really 
getting sick of all this nonsense.  Gee. I am really upset, because
FORD is losing part of their market to CHEVY.  I own a Ford, and they
really should market their vehicles. (Irony, for those who don't get it --
how many of us get upset because our brand of microwave isn't the most 
popular one on the market???)

Actually, Mathematica is being ported to the Amiga.  But that doesn't change
anything.  It's a defective product to begin with.


  Yeah, yeah, yeah.  Maybe Commodore could spend millions of dollars
  on publicity.  Then they would have to charge the same outrageous
  prices that Apple does!!

  Look, why don't we just talk about the Amiga and how to use it, without
  worrying so much about what Commodore is doing.  I bought mine  2 years
  ago because I liked it and the price and it could do what I wanted to do.
  I didn't worry then about how Commodore marketed the machine, and I'm not
  going to start worrying now.

  --Jeff H.