Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!cbmvax!cbmehq!cbmger!peterk From: peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications Subject: Re: When will new WordPerfect be available? Message-ID: <734@cbmger.UUCP> Date: 15 Jan 91 08:34:55 GMT References: <1991Jan14.002805.1@ccvax.iastate.edu> <1092@macuni.mqcc.mq.oz> Reply-To: peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY) Organization: Commodore Bueromaschinen GmbH, West Germany Lines: 35 In article limonce@pilot.njin.net (Tom Limoncelli) writes: > >Your first statement about losing money is not completely correct. WP >made BIG bucks on AmigaWP when it was first released. They were often >quoted as paying their development costs in 2 or 3 months. That's a >great trick. They lost money when they didn't think before they moved >into Germany. They heard that there were tons of Amigas in Germany so >they paid big $$$ to translate the manuals, etc. What they didn't >know (though they could have asked ANYONE) is that piracy is so bad in >Germany, you can't spend big $$$ and still make a profit. Oh, please come on, don't stomp on us this way. It's really insulting to blame one certain country for things happening everywhere. In my eyes WP had other problems (at least at that time, don't know about current status): 1. Quality. WP crashed faster than I could type. 2. Manual. Yes, it was German, but it wasn't very helpfull, in that it hid some vital features of the printer drivers from me. So I just couldn't get my printer to work properly. Together with 1. this caused me to flush it from my disk. 3. Price. A price of ca. 1000 DM for the mentioned quality was simply not adequate. You told correctly that they made good money in the beginning. Do you also know from whom? Commodore! Commodore Germany bought lots of packages and lost BIG money because it couldn't sell all. >Tom's big tip for the day: :-) I will not cite it here, because it is too insulting. Please stop such utterings. -- Best regards, Dr. Peter Kittel // E-Mail to \\ Only my personal opinions... Commodore Frankfurt, Germany \X/ {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!cbmger!peterk