Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!sugar!peter From: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: Still no Ami businessware. Message-ID: <1991Mar23.042603.14987@sugar.hackercorp.com> Date: 23 Mar 91 04:26:03 GMT References: <1991Mar15.220940.22327@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> <12115@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> <1991Mar22.024332.15097@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> Organization: Sugar Land Unix -- Houston, TX Lines: 14 In article <1991Mar22.024332.15097@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita) writes: > But then marketing issues are much harder. They've got > some stiff price competition recently. Mac has reduced prices > dramatically, introducing three new cheap models that no dealer > can keep in stock, and they just slashed prices on three other > models as well. Then there is NeXT... Plus the Mac clones at the end of the year. Of course, they could do a port of the Motif-based Mac clone software. Given a decent O/S base (which is what it sounds like this new software is, as a complete reimplementation of the Mac O/S in a cleanroom environment) it might even run properly under Intuition. -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' .