Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!cunixf.cc.columbia.edu!cunixb.cc.columbia.edu!es1
From: es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: Still no Ami businessware.
Message-ID: <1991Mar15.220940.22327@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu>
Date: 15 Mar 91 22:09:40 GMT
References: <1991Mar6.201318.11662@acd4.acd.com> <19656@cbmvax.commodore.com> <12017@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>
Sender: usenet@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (The Network News)
Reply-To: es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita)
Organization: Columbia University
Lines: 26
Nntp-Posting-Host: cunixb.cc.columbia.edu

In article <12017@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> navas@cory.Berkeley.EDU writes:
>
>Sure, but Commodore is *not* performing its half of the dance.  WE can't
>blame the engineers, they seem to be working very hard -- and if they had
>twice as many, they might actually be able to get all the things they want to
>get done, done in a reasonable amount of time.  That cannot be *our* 
>responsiblity though, can it?
>
>Neither can the lack of financial commitment.  If Commodore *really* wants
>this machine to succeed, they take that 28million they earned last year
>(or whatever), and they spend it in exactly the fashion you describe.  That is

	Commodore doesn't issue dividends to stock holders, so
that $28 million will be spent, have no doubt. It doesn't just
disappear. It might not be spent on everything you want, but it
will go to use. And, just because Commodore doesn't discuss their
dealings with Lotus and Microsoft on the net doesn't mean they
don't have dealings.

	-- Ethan


A tourist in New York City was overheard asking a New Yorker,

	"Excuse me, can you tell me how to get to the statue of
liberty, or should I go f*ck myself?"