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From: kagle@batcomputer.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: A2000 price rise: A defense
Message-ID: <1240@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>
Date: Mon, 1-Jun-87 18:15:02 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jun  1 18:15:02 1987
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Reply-To: kagle@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu.UUCP (Jonathan C. Kagle)
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In article <748@omepd> hah@isum.UUCP (Hans Hansen) writes:
>To the management of Commodore:
>...
>1)  Please pay Lotus for 1-2-3.
 
    This would make the writers of a well known 1-2-3 clone for the Amiga very
unhappy.  Seriously, Radio Shack reportedly paid Personal Software (later Visi-
Corp which was bought by Lotus) well over $100,000 for a simple version of 
VisiCalc for the TRS-80.  I would guess that Lotus would demand a much higher
price for 1-2-3. 
>2)  Please pay Ashton-Tate for DBase and Symphony.

    Commodore tried to get Enable, a fairly good integrated package, translated
from the PC.  Needless to say, it ranks with Turbo Pascal in the Amiga Vapor-
ware Hall of fame.  [BTW Symphony is by Lotus]
>3)  Please have a GOOD word processor developed.
    Atari paid Microsoft to develop an emasculated version of Microsoft Word
called Microsoft Write.  It was advertised in Time magazine, but it has yet
to be released.  Judging from the Beta copy that I saw, Atari wasted its 
money.  The Amiga will soon have Amiga WordPerfect.  Though it is still
vaporware, expect it to condense in the next month or so.  Trust me. 
>Hans (Trying to sell Amigas to Intel and getting shot down by Macs) Hansen

Jonathan Kagle