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From: lmbailey@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Laurana Bailey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: Commodore Business Machines
Message-ID: <7661@vela.acs.oakland.edu>
Date: 30 Jun 91 10:25:38 GMT
References: <1128.2868758b@vger.nsu.edu> <7592@vela.acs.oakland.edu> <1991Jun28.230609.30900@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu>
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In article <1991Jun28.230609.30900@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> es1@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita) writes:
| 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

Perhaps thats true, but the impressiveness is no where near as much.
As the average IBM user what they think of SuperBase Professional 4
and the answer you most often hear is "Super-What?"

Laurana


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