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From: hill@evax.arl.utexas.edu (Adam Hill)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: Still no Ami businessware.
Message-ID: <1991Mar7.050258.16878@evax.arl.utexas.edu>
Date: 7 Mar 91 05:02:58 GMT
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Organization: Computer Science Engineering Univ. of Texas at Arlington
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In article <1991Mar6.201318.11662@acd4.acd.com> swm@acd4.acd.com ( Scott W. Manzi (ICTT)) writes:

>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 your mad now you will be FLAMING in a bit....

  In the newest BYTE (April) there is a "Whats New" on Word Perfect 5.1
for the *NEXT*!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  I don't know about the rest of you but this BITES MY BUM quite a bit.



>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...

	Amen.

>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. 

      You know there is one thing I wondered about while the Toaster
was VaporWARE??

    How did NewTek survive? How did they get the huge mkting budget
that they have and how did they pay for custom ASIC development? Did
CBM support them or what?




-- 
 adam hill --  hill@evax.uta.edu
     I programmed for three days          Make Up Your Own Mind.. AMIGA!
     And heard no human voices.              Amiga... Multimedia NOW!  
     But the hard disk sang. - TZoP              Born To Run SVR4