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From: navas@cory.Berkeley.EDU (David C. Navas)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: Still no Ami businessware.
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Date: 18 Mar 91 21:08:14 GMT
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In article <1991Mar15.220940.22327@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita) writes:
>	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

Very true.  However, I have *no* interest whatsoever what Cmdre is doing.  I
am not affiliated with Cmdre in any way, except as a registered developer.

What I *care* about are the results.

Here is the upshot:

	1) Microsoft is developing a lot of decent software for Apple.
	2) Lotus has developed an interesting package for Next.
	3) Neither has done anything visible for the Amiga.
		[Except, maybe, AmigaBasic, gee, great :) ]

I don't care what Cmdre is doing, they are clearly not doing *enough*.  As an
interested party, that really is all we should compare, no?  I can't believe
that Steve Jobs paid more than $28million to Lotus, why haven't we seen
similar results, then?  Clearly Cmdre has a bigger business market than the
Next.  Heck, it's kind of a cheap shot to even compare the two -- what Nexts
are selling, are going to schools, where it is not clear that business sftwre
is likely to be used, or needed.

They seem to have the resources, they have the operating system, they have
what is apparently a sufficient market for some companies, so what's the
holdup?

All bitterness is directed against Cmdre, not Ethan, of course :) :)


>A tourist in New York City was overheard asking a New Yorker,
 Hey, hey, I'm from NY -- we never said no such thing.  Of course, then, I
 never lived in the city :)


David Navas                                   navas@cory.berkeley.edu
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