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From: rodent@netcom.COM (Ben Discoe)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: Still no Ami businessware.
Message-ID: <27507@netcom.COM>
Date: 9 Mar 91 05:23:12 GMT
References: <39774@cup.portal.com> <39832@cup.portal.com> <1991Mar6.201318.11662@acd4.acd.com>
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swm@acd4.acd.com ( Scott W. Manzi (ICTT)) writes:

>In article <39832@cup.portal.com> Doug_B_Erdely@cup.portal.com writes:
>>Try writing the software
>>companies that write this trash! Let THEM know what you think of THEIR
>>software!

>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:

>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.

  Wait a darn minute!  If someone needs DBASEIII, they darn well SHOULD buy
an Amiga.  Allow me to mention dBManV, which is a DBASE3 clone with enough
extentions, improvements etc. to satisfy any IBM-world database type.
Runs great under 2.0 too.  And about 5 different mail-order ads in AmigaWorld
list it for Very Inexpensive.

>If someone needs ORACLE, they will not buy an Amiga.
>	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.

  Please excuse the fact that I am connected to VersaSoft (makers of dBMan)
as their main programmer (and old-time Amiga fanatic).  On the original
subject, Commodore is indeed trying harder to encourage development -
the 3000 I'm typing this on at work is evidence.

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Ben, in San Jose, the cruddy L.A. of northern California.