Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!asuvax!ncar!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!sdd.hp.com!spool.mu.edu!agate!stanford.edu!leland.Stanford.EDU!jessica.stanford.edu!bard From: bard@jessica.stanford.edu (David Hopper) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: Amiga in the Workforce Message-ID: <1991May22.211703.22445@leland.Stanford.EDU> Date: 22 May 91 21:17:03 GMT References: Sender: news@leland.Stanford.EDU (Mr News) Organization: Academic Information Resources, Stanford University Lines: 33 In article johns@dworkin.Amber.COM (John Silvia) writes: >Although I am not currently looking, the idea of dropping out of the >software company I am in (34 Largest in the world) and going into the Amiga >Business world is attractive to me (and probably to lots of people out there >too!) I would hope so. >My question is this: Does anyone know of any list of companies that >actually use the Amiga as a replacement for the PC. I am talking about big >companies that have their own tech support, etc. Probably not exclusively. In the business world, the Amiga is a niche item. The 'standard' architectures have ignored the Amiga's file system and standards to the point of providing no real way to transfer files or formats. Regardless of how good the Amiga's business software gets, it will always have this roadblock. Company A, if they went all Amiga, would have no way of transferring files with Company B, who would be all-IBM or all-Mac. One way is all it would go. Of course, if a company needs not worry about this, the Amiga's an option. Over at the Stanford Linear Accelerator, Amigas are used as Tektronics terminals and TeX engines for all those nifty scientific documents. Hewlett-Packard uses an Amiga-equipped studio as their production and communications center. I'm sure I could find other, equally impressive examples, but only within niches. 'Course, you could look at Commodore ('cept that they use Macs & Colts, don't they? ;-) Dave Hopper | /// Anthro Creep | Academic Info Resources, Stanford |__ /// . . | and NeXT Campus Consultant bard@jessica. |\\\/// Ia! Ia! | -- Just remember: love is life, and Stanford.EDU | \XX/ Shub-Niggurath! | hate is living death. :Black Sabbath