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From: griff@anvil.intel.com (Richard Griffith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: Still no Ami businessware.
Message-ID: <1991Mar8.154055.16671@intelhf.hf.intel.com>
Date: 8 Mar 91 15:40:55 GMT
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In article <2440@ria.ccs.uwo.ca>, ptoper@obelix (Andy Nagy) writes:
> From: ptoper@obelix (Andy Nagy)
> Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
> Subject: Re: Still no Ami businessware.
> 
> In article <1991Mar6.201318.11662@acd4.acd.com>, swm@acd4.acd.com (
> Scott W. Manzi (ICTT)) writes:
> [stuff deleted]
> > 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
>          ^^^^^^^^^^
> 
> 	This typically means mucho money. Does C-A have (literaly) millions of 
> dollars to pay WordPerfect, Lotus, Ashton-Tate etc ? 

Can they afford *not* to?  With data compatability, data sharing, and a little
cooperation between vendors (read: CBM should write the specs to require it...)
WP, 123, and dBase could freely swap data back and forth *while running at the 
same time*. (ARexx and/or Clipboard....)

> 
> > Jobs did...
> [more stuff deleted]
> > Regards,
> > 	Scott
> 
> 
>
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> Andy Nagy (ptoper@asterix.gaul.csd.uwo.ca)
> The University of Western Ontario, London, Canada
>  "Dee do do do, dee da da da, thats all I want to say to you" -- The Police

:Richard E. Griffith, "griff" : iNTEL, Hillsboro Ore.
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