Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!caen!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!cunixf.cc.columbia.edu!cunixa.cc.columbia.edu!es1
From: es1@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: Commodore Business Machines
Message-ID: <1991Jun28.230609.30900@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu>
Date: 28 Jun 91 23:06:09 GMT
References: <7516@vela.acs.oakland.edu> <1128.2868758b@vger.nsu.edu> <7592@vela.acs.oakland.edu>
Sender: usenet@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (The Network News)
Reply-To: es1@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita)
Organization: Columbia University
Lines: 29
Nntp-Posting-Host: cunixa.cc.columbia.edu

In article <7592@vela.acs.oakland.edu> lmbailey@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Laurana Bailey) writes:
>In article <1128.2868758b@vger.nsu.edu> manes@vger.nsu.edu ((Mark D. Manes), Norfolk State University) writes:
>
>| > | It would not hurt Commodore's reputation any to pay to have some of
>| > | the major software packages ported to the Amiga.   It would do the
>| > | Amiga community a great service if the problems between Commodore
>| > | and Borland were solved.  I would love QuatroPro for the Amiga!
>| > 
>| > Again, makes sense to me. So why aren't they doing this?
>| 
>| They are!  They funded the development of SuperBase Professional 4!
>
>SuperBase already had several databases out for the Amiga. What was to
>stop them from developing SuperBase Professional 4 on their own? Why
>didn't they put that money towards better known IBM applications like
>Lotus 1-2-3 or AutoCad or dBase IV? Lord knows I don't need them, but
>it would attract attention away from Big Blue.
>
	Assuming it is the case that Commodore paid for SuperBase
IV, I can only assume that the reason was that Precision wouldn't
have done it otherwise. Also, Precision, as you say, already has
Amiga products, and programmers who are familiar with Amiga
programming. I'm sure the cost was probably far lower to convince
Precision than Lotus.
	-- Ethan

FF buckets of bits on the bus,	FF buckets of bits.
Take one down,			Short it to ground,
FE buckets of bits on the bus.