Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!aplcen!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!sdd.hp.com!apollo!moynihan_r From: moynihan_r@apollo.HP.COM (Robert Moynihan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: PRODIGY HATES AMIGA -- Says wont do port! Message-ID: <4d0aec1d.20b6d@apollo.HP.COM> Date: 26 Sep 90 17:28:00 GMT References: <14988@shlump.nac.dec.com> <991@ucsvc.ucs.unimelb.edu.au> <90247.192033LDSHANER@MTUS5.BITNET> <33565@cup.portal.com> Sender: root@apollo.HP.COM Reply-To: moynihan_r@apollo.hp.com (Robert Moynihan) Distribution: na Organization: Apollo Computer, Chelmsford, MA Lines: 42 In article sk2x+@andrew.cmu.edu (Sun Kun Kim) writes: >This is no BIG news. Prodigy is sponsored(probably co-owned as well) by >Sears and IBM last time I checked. I think the major thugs at IBM don't >want any other computer types on their system(do I sense a little >hostility from IBM?) and they claim to have about 250,000 subscribers >already, which they say is second only to Compuserve with about 500,000 >subscribers. Prodigy plans to have local dial-in numbers for most parts >of the nation pretty soon and thinks that it will catch Compuserve. I >don't think this is a big loss for us Amiga users. Maybe Commodore can >start-up an Amiga-specific network.(?) That would be pretty cool. I >know, I'll keep dreaming. > > Sun... > I missed the original posting about Prodigy, so I can't comment on it's contents. However, Prodigy *is* currently available for the Mac platform. Perhaps Big Blue is softening their PC-compatible-only stance. Recently, I received an offer from Prodigy to join their service. It was a free software/one-month trial or some such thing. I sent their marketing director a very nice letter thanking him for the offer, "but unfortunately, since Prodigy is not available for the Amiga, I cannot use your product in any case." I asked him to contact me again when Prodigy was available for my platform of choice "as I would be happy to become a user of your fine product." I encourage anyone who receives mail offers for computer-related products that are not available on Amigas to send similar letters. After all, the only way to get the attention of developers is to let them know they are missing a significant market by *not* producing a port to the Amiga. On a semi-related note, I read an ad in Amiga World for GEnie, offering unlimited access to a number of their products for $4.95 per month. Any GEnie subscribers out there that can tell us what the catch is? (if any) Bob ============================///==================================== moynihan_r@apollo.hp.com /// "Winners are losers who got up and Plink: Moynihan \\\/// gave it just one more try." Hewlett-Packard/Apollo \XX/ -Dennis DeYoung