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From: kevinf@infmx.UUCP (Kevin Franden)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Microsoft, OS/2, and UNIX
Summary: Yes however...
Message-ID: <1218@infmx.UUCP>
Date: 4 Apr 89 00:30:36 GMT
References: <267.2434BA33@medsoft.uucp> <13002@watdragon.waterloo.edu>
Organization: Informix Software Inc., Menlo Park, CA.
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I think that one thing we are ALL forgetting is this:

	That which drives a market is not necessisarily the BEST 
	but that which is in demand.

Witness the migration from CPM (admittitly before I was heavily involved w/
computing) to DOS.  Users by the droves (so I read) decided they HAD to have
lotus on their computer (which HAD to have DOS) forsaking the well established
base of CPM stuff.

My observation of the PC marketplace (a VASTLY different place that the 
mini/mainframe market) is that "if it looks good and goes fast, I'll take
it (yes this is oversimplified but...)  Kinda like the soggy potato chip
theroie:
	A kid will eat a potatoe chip.
	He'd prefer a nice crisp one but if all he has is a soggy one,
	it'll get eaten anyway.

Which brings us back to lotus 1-2-3.  Even though we have LOTS of "soggy"
applications fro the DOS world, _I_ see no "crisp" applications for OS/2.
No, I am not advocating DOS as the os for all seasons (in fact I REALLY
dislike it...I'd prefer an os w/ the GUTS of unix but the pretty pictures
of a mac)  I am just saying IMHO Joe "I_think_I'm_a_computer_stud" Pankowitz
won't let go of his 1000's of $$$ in DOS stuff until there is a REAL good
reason to.  I don't think OS/2 is it and I think alot of people think the
same thing.


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Kevin Franden		   UUCP: {backbones}!pyramid!infmx!kevinf
Informix Software Inc
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