Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!pacbell.com!tandem!zorch!sega0!mykes From: mykes@sega0.SF-Bay.ORG (Mike Schwartz) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: Still no Ami businessware. Message-ID: Date: 23 Mar 91 03:49:01 GMT References: <12017@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> <1991Mar15.220940.22327@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> <12115@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> <1991Mar22.024332.15097@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> Organization: Amiga makes it possible Lines: 30 In article <1991Mar22.024332.15097@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita) writes: >In article <12115@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> navas@cory.Berkeley.EDU writes: >> > The reason Lotus went to the NeXT apparently was because >the development environment is so easy. Yes, NeXT's sales are up, >but I don't think NeXT will ever be profitable. They aren't >selling THAT many. Realistically, they are only selling to >colleges. If Columbia is any example, there are NO students who >own NeXTs, so student ownership is negligible. It is the school's >themselves who are buying for the most part. Basically, NeXTs are >nice machines at an unbeatable price, but they still aren't going >to succeed IMNSHO. > > Resources? Apple has 4x their annual sales. IBM has >megabucks. NeXT has money to throw around simply because Steve >Jobs doesn't care about profits. Also, if Lotus started porting >today, you might wait 1 1/2 -- 2 years before you saw anything. > There was a rumor back in '85 when the Amiga was lauched that Lotus had ported 1-2-3 to the Amiga. The rumor goes that the port was TRIVIAL, probably because 1-2-3 is written in Lattice C (or was then) and the first real software you could get for the Amiga was Lattice C. The rumor went that Lotus was just waiting for a big enough marketplace on the Amiga to make it worth their while to spend money on advertising, etc. Maybe the market is still not big enough? -- ******************************************************* * Assembler Language separates the men from the boys. * *******************************************************