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From: es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita)
Subject: Re: Commodore Business Machines
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Date: Sun, 30 Jun 1991 14:48:31 GMT

In article <7661@vela.acs.oakland.edu> lmbailey@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Laurana Bailey) writes:
>
>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?"
>
	It is true that Lotus would make a big "image"
difference. But it isn't like if you just get Lotus ported the
Amiga will become accepted in business markets. The Amiga's price
doesn't compete with clones (how can it?). And people are sheep
who like to be herded, they would have to be actively converted,
and that would take an enormous effort.
	Also, we'd likely have the same problem with Lotus (in 2
years) as we have with WordPerfect. We'd have a
several-generation old program with bugs. Personally, I'd much
rather see WordPerfect 5.1 as I feel that the word processors on
the Amiga are significantly behind the spreadsheets.
	-- Ethan

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