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From: srp@modcomp.UUCP (Steve Pietrowicz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: WordPerfect dumps Amiga
Message-ID: <157@modcomp.UUCP>
Date: 6 May 89 13:56:48 GMT
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in article <1077@afit-ab.arpa>, wbralick@afit-ab.arpa (Will Bralick) says:
> Second, I am a bit confused.  I understood that WP made back their
> sunk cost on their Amiga port in a (record ?) three days (version 1.00?).
> The implication I gleaned from Steve's repost (note that differs from
> a riposte' :-) was that WP saw the Amiga market as a money-loser.
> Which is correct?

I don't recall the exact amount of time that it took WP made their money back.
From the postings on CompuServe, WP corp. didn't make it sound like it
was a matter of days.

From what I've been able to tell, WP Corp didn't seem to think that they can
go on with Amiga development towards Version 6.0 without losing money.  It does
sound like they're starting to rethink position however.  One of the reasons
for their decision was they thought the Amiga community wouldn't put up with
anything less than full WYSIWYG in the next version.  A number of people on CIS
told them they'd be just as happy to have a new version that fixes the current 
bugs, offers new features, and (eventually) would go on to a new version beyond
that which would have WYSIWYG.  WP seems to be sitting back and doing a quiet
re-evaluation.  I'm not sure if they'll change their position or not.
-- 
Stephen R. Pietrowicz    UUCP: ...!uunet!modcomp!srp      CIS: 73047,2313