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From: rjc@wookumz.ai.mit.edu (Ray Cromwell)
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Subject: Re: Commodore Research and Development.
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Date: 9 Jan 91 09:58:21 GMT
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In article <41220@nigel.ee.udel.edu> TAAB5@ccvax.iastate.edu (Marc Barrett) writes:
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>   Japanese companies put 2-3 times the engineering talent into their
>products as do American companies.  The result: better products.  Companies
>in other countries are catching onto this idea, and are putting putting 
>more of their total sales into research and devlopment.  Unfortunately,
>companies in the U.S. have yet to learn this idea, especially companies
>like Commodore.  It is fortunate that very few U.S. companies are as 
>bad as Commodore in this respect, though, or we'd be in *REALLY* bad
>shape!  
>
>   As for IBM, the mainframe market is totally dominated by IBM, precisely
>because IBM spends quite a lot on R&D.  IBM is one of the few U.S.
>companies that are still highly respected in Japan, precisely because
>IBM is one of the few U.S. companies that have caught onto the concept
>of putting a lot of money (as a percentage of total sales) into R&D.
>BTW, over half of IBM's R&D budget goes into long-range scientific R&D --
>research that may not pay off for 50 years or more, if at all.  A lot of 
>research at IBM is on things like superconductivity, nanotechnology,
>and other research that does not turn short-term profits.  By comparison,
>ALL research at Commodore is very short-term, precisely because 
>Commodore's managers are more worried about short-term profits then
>long-term strength.


  Tell me marc, how do you know so much about the Japanese culture and
what American companies they respect if any. How do you know ALL
Commodore research is 'very short-term'? You don't work for Commodore.
How do you know what Commodore managers are thinking? Sometimes I wonder
if you have any intelligence at all. You see one little press release on a
promotion and some lay offs, then make BROAD SWEEPING IGNORANT conclusions
on things you know nothing about making yourself look like a total idiot.
Then after 3 or 4 posts telling about the new newsgroups, especially
comp.sys.amiga.advocacy, you continue to post these messages to comp.sys.amiga.
You have no idea what your talking about as shown by your 'Atari Lynx has
Amiga custom chips' and your 'Commodore is cutting R&D' qwhen in fact, I heard
that Andy Finkel said they just hired 3 new engineers, and layed-off no one.

 Please, please keep your posts out of Comp.sys.amiga and redirect your
drivel to the appropriate group.

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>>(smile)
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>>>>-- 
>>>>Dave Haynie Commodore-Amiga (Amiga 3000) "The Crew That Never Rests"
>>>>   {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!daveh      PLINK: hazy     BIX: hazy
>>>>	"Don't worry, 'bout a thing. 'Cause every little thing, 
>>>>	 gonna be alright"		-Bob Marley
>>> 
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>>>                                    -MB-
>>                                     ^^^^
>>                               (There is no cure)
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>> -mark=
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>> | \/     |   Mark D. Manes                    "Mr. AmigaVision" 
>> | /\  \/ |   manes@vger.nsu.edu                                        
>> |     /  |   (804) 683-2532    "Make up your own mind! - AMIGA"
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