Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!bellcore!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!rice!moray.rice.edu!jsd From: jsd@moray.rice.edu (Shawn Joel Dube) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Industry Publications Ignoring the Amiga. Message-ID: <1990Dec12.193516.10291@rice.edu> Date: 12 Dec 90 19:35:16 GMT References: <1990Dec11.041707.29818@sbcs.sunysb.edu> <23958@grebyn.com> Sender: news@rice.edu (News) Reply-To: jsd@moray.rice.edu (Shawn Joel Dube) Distribution: usa Organization: Rice University Lines: 41 In article <23958@grebyn.com>, ckp@grebyn.com (Checkpoint Technologies) writes: |> |> The Amiga has not made the smallest dent in the business market, which |> is where the money is, and where all the focus in the USA is. |> The business desktop has been taken by the PC. It's not even a marketplace |> anymore, it's an institution taken completely for granted by everyone |> involved. The Amiga has no chance there, and therefore will never |> receive any better press in the business and PC trade rags. It may |> penetrate new markets, perhaps the A3000UX will create a new view of |> desktop Unix machines. All this remains to be seen. |> One thing that would help Commodore capture the business market is to shead its name. And possibly even the Amiga name. Why? When you mention Commodore to a person, the must likely thing that he/she will think of is 'game machine' or the 64 (that's assuming he doesn't know much about the Amiga. If you still don't beleive me, look at Atari. At one point they really had some good computers. Supposedly the new Atari TT is suppose to be good (I don't know. Even if it isn't, please get your mouth closed.) Mention a Atari computer to most people and they'll respond, 'Atari makes computers?' Its true. Most business people don't like chances and when a company has a game-machine reputation, chances are they arn't even going to look at that make. One last thing, I know several people w/ Amigas and I've never seen any of them running business-related applications, ie. word-pro., spread-sheets, etc. -- rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr r ___ _ "...but then there was the r r /__ | \ possibility that they were r r ___/hawn |__\ube LaRouche democrats which, of r r jsd@owlnet.rice.edu course, were better off dead." r rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr