Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!aplcen!boingo.med.jhu.edu!welch.jhu.edu!glenn From: glenn@welch.jhu.edu (Glenn M. Mason) Newsgroups: comp.databases Subject: Re: Market share for DOS database products Message-ID: <1991Apr28.041636.7696@welch.jhu.edu> Date: 28 Apr 91 04:16:36 GMT References: <71280@brunix.UUCP> <1991Apr18.230012.12838@dbase.A-T.COM> <1991Apr21.004144.16332@welch.jhu.edu> <1991Apr25.205639.2079@dbase.A-T.COM> <73732@brunix.UUCP> Reply-To: glenn@welchlab.welch.jhu.edu (Glenn M. Mason) Organization: Welch Medical Library, Baltimore Lines: 35 In article <73732@brunix.UUCP> pew@cs.brown.edu (Peter E. Wagner) writes: >In article <1991Apr25.205639.2079@dbase.A-T.COM>, awd@dbase.A-T.COM (Alastair Dallas) writes: >|> >|> dBASE lost market share precisely because of bad press (and perhaps bad >|> word of mouth). You may be right that the product was rushed to market and >|> that this may have caused the bad press, but it was market perceptions that >|> affected the bottom line, not technical imperfections. > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > >Bull. Are you guys so insecure about your products that you feel >threatened by the media? If so, it's for good reason. It sounds like >you think the media wants to write bad things about your products. >The media wrote bad things, because it was warranted. Look at what >you said above about "You may be right that the product was rushed to >market". Clearly this indicates that you agree that the product was >not ready. I would just like to say that everything that Peter said in his posting goes double for me, but at the same time I would like to apologize for posting followups for nothing more than busting you guys out. I have heard so many good things about FoxPro (especially with the 2.0 version) that I am thinking about purchasing it and trying it out too. You guys at A-T really should not try to use netnews as a means of spreading dBASE related propaganda. Someone who works for A-T and owns A-T stock posting second hand, negative comments about a competitors product? That's just not cool. It's not news. I'm not sure how you are interpreting the followup postings, but from my viewpoint, you guys are really taking a beating! Maybe you can call for a vote on a new newsgroup - comp.propaganda.bs. Glenn #include