Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!ncar!gatech!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!ncoast!allbery From: allbery@NCoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery KB8JRR/AA) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: NeXT Press Release Message-ID: <1991May7.004753.24629@NCoast.ORG> Date: 7 May 91 00:47:53 GMT References: <48297@ut-emx.uucp> <8b6Gw!m+1@cs.psu Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery KB8JRR/AA) Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Organization: North Coast Public Access Un*x (ncoast) Lines: 35 As quoted from by melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger): +--------------- | It really is hard to find a dealer, but I will look around. With all | this productivity software, why can't Commodore sell computers to | businesses? +--------------- Well, now I know where you went when it finally dawned on you that the Mac folks weren't going to convert en masse.... Why can't Commodore sell computers to businesses in the U.S.? Because they have never had anything even remotely resembling a decent marketing strategy here. Not even back when the CBM series was pretty close to---if not at---the top of the line in small computers. (And does anyone else remember the SuperPET? "Games machine" indeed.) In Europe, CBM has always been a strong contender. Commodore has been trying to shuck the "game machine" image since the PET. (Atari's been in a similar situation.) Neither's really done the job right (as you observed about the emphasis on games for the Amiga), but both have had the hardware to do it---and even the programs---for some time. The problem is, to make it in business you have to have the abominable attitude of an IBM or an Apple, and you have to *de*emphasize the things that make a machine interesting to home buyers (i.e. games...). C= is trying to straddle both with the A500 vs. the A500P, but still has that "games machine" image. ++Brandon (P.S. I'm familiar with the business attitude, having had to work with those types for the past 10 years. The only conclusion I can draw is that Corporate America has a screw loose somewhere.) -- Me: Brandon S. Allbery Ham: KB8JRR/AA 10m,6m,2m,220,440,1.2 Internet: allbery@NCoast.ORG (restricted HF at present) Delphi: ALLBERY AMPR: kb8jrr.AmPR.ORG [44.70.4.88] uunet!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!ncoast!allbery KB8JRR @ WA8BXN.OH