Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!yale!mintaka!geech.ai.mit.edu!rjc From: rjc@geech.ai.mit.edu (Ray Cromwell) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: NeXT-bashing party (hit "n" if you're not interested :-)) Message-ID: <1991Mar17.215026.15598@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> Date: 17 Mar 91 21:50:26 GMT References: <1991Mar17.031448.26855@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> <1991Mar17.202827.5577@cc.helsinki.fi> Sender: daemon@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu (Lucifer Maleficius) Organization: The Internet Lines: 35 In article <1991Mar17.202827.5577@cc.helsinki.fi> jalkio@cc.helsinki.fi writes: >In article <1991Mar17.031448.26855@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu>, rjc@geech.ai.mit.edu (Ray Cromwell) writes: >> In article melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger) writes: >> >>>How's Commodore doing in getting software companies to take them >>>seriously? >> >> It's not a matter of taking the Amiga seriously, it's a matter of >> paying their development fees. Lotus would be glad to port their >> products to the Amiga for about $15 mill. >> > >(Note, I am reading between the lines...) >Uhh?! Lotus _ported_ Improv to NeXT? From where? To my knowledge, Improv >was _developed_ on NeXT platform. I have heard that they tried to >program Improv before, for O/S 2 or something else. But only after they >started to program on NeXT they could really make a working product out >of that... > >Better check your points. > Jouni Alkio, Helsinki, Finland You read too much in between the lines. I never said anything about Improv. I've never used it, nor do I know anything about it. I was talking about Lotus products in general. Software companies would be glad to port software to the Amiga, at the right price. Hell, I bet Apple would port Quickdraw to the Amiga if Commodore licensed it and paid Apple a few hundred million. (yea, Apple is greedy.) -- /~\_______________________________________________________________________/~\ |n| rjc@albert.ai.mit.edu Amiga, the computer for the creative mind. |n| |~| .-. .-. |~| |_|________________________________| |_| |________________________________|_|