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Organisation: Westfaelische Wilhelms-Universitaet, Muenster, Germany
Date: Monday, 24 Jun 1991 11:50:25 MES
From: <ONM07@DMSWWU1A.BITNET>
Message-ID: <91175.115025ONM07@DMSWWU1A.BITNET>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Another Atari write-in campaign...
References:  <1991Jun21.181638.21970@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>

In article <1991Jun21.181638.21970@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>,
lch3e@holmes.acc.Virginia.EDU (Lauren C. Howard) says:
> Atari Germany canceled their advance order of 10-15,000 units under
> pressure of German developers, WP contacted Atari in Sunnyvale.  Reports
> vary somewhat, but the result of that talk seems to be that Atari Corp
> will not at this time back WordPerfect by assuring a minimum order.
>
This is simply not true. Atari Germany has TONS of unsold 4.1 versions.
They asked WP for a beta test or preview version of 5.x, but WordPerfect
wasn't able to show something -- would YOU have ordered 10000 units of
a program you don't know, having lots of unsold copies of an older
program version that virtually no one buys.

Please don't blame the `germans'. WP is mainly an american company, and
if they can't succeed in the U.S., they won't in Germany either.

BTW: I would *love* to see a new WP on GEM!
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