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From: jmpiazza@sunybcs.UUCP (Joseph M. Piazza)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga: A market analysis
Message-ID: <3555@sunybcs.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 1-Jun-87 00:31:47 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jun  1 00:31:47 1987
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In article <1444@cc5.bbn.com.BBN.COM> denbeste@cc5.bbn.com.BBN.COM (Steven
Den Beste) writes:
> ... I think the Amiga has no prayer of penetrating [the business] market:
>Commodore is an unknown quanitity, it is thus a very risky proposition
>to use the Amiga, repair service isn't sufficiently easy or fast, and
>it doesn't have any commensurate advantages to outweigh these drawbacks.

	When speaking with a manager (or whatever) of a successful computer
dealership who's main source of business is in field sales, he told me that
he wouldn't touch Commodore systems ever since they got screwed when Commodore
bailed out somehow in the calculator market -- after assuring dealerships
that they wouldn't.

	Anyone have more details on this?  Isn't this similar to what
happened when Commodore dumped 64's to the K-Market?  I would like to have
more info on this subject.  Anyone willing e-mail a brief but comprehensive
history lesson?  If there's sufficient interest, I'll summarize and post.

	The result is that many dealers (well, at least the one that I
talked to) treat Commodore as a known quantity -- one that will leave
you holding the wrong end of the stick.

Flip side,

	joe piazza

--- Cogito ergo equus sum.

(Yes, Leo, it does mean "I think therefore I am a horse" -- but then again,
maybe not -- I never studied Latin :-)

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