Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!uupsi!sunic!news.funet.fi!hydra!cc.helsinki.fi!jalkio From: jalkio@cc.helsinki.fi Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: NeXT-bashing party (hit "n" if you're not interested :-)) Message-ID: <1991Mar18.154007.5587@cc.helsinki.fi> Date: 18 Mar 91 15:40:07 GMT References: <1991Mar17.031448.26855@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> <1991Mar17.202827.5577@cc.helsinki.fi> <1991Mar17.215026.15598@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> Organization: University of Helsinki Lines: 43 In article <1991Mar17.215026.15598@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu>, rjc@geech.ai.mit.edu (Ray Cromwell) writes: > 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.) > Well, wasn't your original point something like "of course it is easy for NeXT to get Lotus and other big companies to port software to their platform because NeXT pays much for doing that"? That's how I understood it, anyway. I just tried to show that this might not be the case... at least in the Lotus case. (And note that Improv is the only Lotus product available on NeXT - and it is only available on NeXT this far. BTW, Improv is a new generation spreadsheet - perhaps the best one.) Hmm. And what is wrong in NeXT making arrangements with software companies, after all? Users are happy to get new products. Jouni Alkio, Helsinki, Finland