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From: dave@dms3b1.UUCP (Dave Hanna)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Autocad
Summary: Why don't we do it ourselves?
Keywords: Amiga port business software
Message-ID: <199@dms3b1.UUCP>
Date: 22 May 89 11:13:41 GMT
References: <15588@swrinde.nde.swri.edu> <5160034@hplsla.HP.COM>
Reply-To: dave@dms3b1.UUCP (Dave Hanna)
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In article <5160034@hplsla.HP.COM> tomb@hplsla.HP.COM (Tom Bruhns) writes:
>                    Amigas have not found their place in business
>applications.  What is the incentive for AutoCad to be ported to
>Amy?  How many people would buy it, even at 1/2 the PC-edition
>price?  I'd guess maybe a few dozen.  If I were the manager responsible
>for making the decision to port it to Amy or not, and I were graded
                                                       ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>on profitability, I'd run from it, screaming!  
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 
 Okay, possibly dumb idea here, but what if some of us whiz-bang program-
ming types were to approach the product managers at some of these companies,
(and I'm not just talking AutoCAD, but all the business areas that we don't
have adequate representation.) with a proposal that they license their
source code to us, we port to the Amiga, give it back to them to sell,
we get a percentage of Amiga sales. For the product manager, it's a no-lose
situation.  Bingo, increase market penetration, zero upfront expenditure, 
all pure profit .  Of course, we who believe in the Amiga and would be 
doing the work would be substantially at risk, but, hey, that's what 
free-enterprise is about.

Any guesses as to what kind of a reaction we might get with such an approach?

Other variants: license the code to us, we'll port it, AND sell it, AND
support it, and pay them a (small) percentage of sales.  That get's around
the objection that "We still have to train our people to sell it and support
it".

>Tom Bruhns

   Dave Hanna
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