Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!spool.mu.edu!munnari.oz.au!ariel!ucsvc.ucs.unimelb.edu.au!u3364521 From: u3364521@ucsvc.ucs.unimelb.edu.au (Lou Cavallo) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: Still no Ami businessware. Message-ID: <1991Mar23.212534.1749@ucsvc.ucs.unimelb.edu.au> Date: 23 Mar 91 11:25:34 GMT Article-I.D.: ucsvc.1991Mar23.212534.1749 References: <1991Mar6.201318.11662@acd4.acd.com> <19656@cbmvax.commodore.com> Organization: I.A.E.S.R., Melbourne University Lines: 37 G'day, In comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Mike Schwartz (mykes@sega0.SF-Bay.ORG ) writes: > One thing to keep in mind is that business people tend to make decisions > based upon business factors. I wish it were not true because then people > would make decisions based upon what is technically the best (Amiga!). > But how else can you explain why anyone would buy a PC clown? Yes I think that many (if not most) Amigans feel similarly about that question. I've just this week been confronted with the question of quality businessware and other software by current and ex Amiga owners with strong Mac sympathies. In each case I advised (as I was asked to) you need (or should stay with) the easy to use and hard to crash Mac software. There are too many hidden stories here for me too adequately explain why this was the advice I gave but I can say that I was not happy to do so. If I had to try to explain it I'd say that the rejection of the Amiga s/w was centred on the perception of 1) unreliabilty, 2) lack of consistent interface and 3) lack of available popular big name s/w that these users had of the Ami. Going through several explanations of why I think this is not so true anymore wasn't too convincing I felt. I'm not sure I'm really contributing constructively here, sorry. I just want to shake off a little of the depression that I picked up because of this epi- sode. Perhaps someone can tell me a positive person X to Amigaite conversion story? :-) { As a trivial aside I can say these same people were very impressed when I } { left a few Amiga demos (eg Crionics) playing on my A1000. :-) } yours truly, Lou Cavallo.