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From: swm@acd4.acd.com ( Scott W. Manzi (ICTT))
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: Still no Ami businessware.
Message-ID: <1991Mar6.201318.11662@acd4.acd.com>
Date: 6 Mar 91 20:13:18 GMT
References: <39774@cup.portal.com> <39832@cup.portal.com>
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In article <39832@cup.portal.com> Doug_B_Erdely@cup.portal.com writes:
>SO? What does this have to do with Commodore? Try writing the software
>companies that write this trash! Let THEM know what you think of THEIR
>software!
>
>	- Doug -
>
>Doug_B_Erdely@Cup.Portal.Com

Gee, why does NeXT with a trivial installed base have MAJOR software
vendors porting code to that machine?   because the COMPANY behind the
machine motivated them to do so perhaps?

If Commodore wants to rise above the image of a game machine, it will have to
take an ACTIVE part in doing so, and I don't mean just making a nice machine.
I mean MOTIVATING the vendors to port their stuff to the Amiga platform, like
Jobs did...

Sorry Doug, I think it has a LOT to do with Commodore.  After all, THEY are
responsible for the success of their machine, not us.  The machine will
survive not because we jump up and down and tell everyone how wonderful it is
(which I DO a fair bit of), but because it fulfills a need, and it takes
software to do that.  For Example:
	a few of years ago we needed to get the documentation department
	running a nice desktop publishing package.  Interleaf was chosen to
	meet our needs.  We were going to put it on Suns (3/60s at the time,
	about 25K each).  When we found out Interleaf would run on a $8k Mac II
	we bought the Macs instead with no loss in functionality, and no real
	loss in performance for this application.

Our needs were fulfilled, and with a much smaller financial burden.  If the
solution was not available on the Macs, we would not have purchased them.

If someone needs Lotus, they will not buy an Amiga.
If someone needs AutoCAD, they will not buy an Amiga.
If someone needs DBASEIII, they will not buy an Amiga.
If someone needs ORACLE, they will not buy an Amiga.
	etc
	etc
	etc.
REGARDLESS of how much they like the machine.

Being a System Administrator, I strongly influence computer purchases
I have never suggested an Ami, because they have not had any solutions
to meet our needs...and that is most unfortunate for Commodore, and for
us Amiga users in general.

Regards,
	Scott