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From: dbk@teroach.UUCP (Dave Kinzer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Autocad
Summary: More investment needed
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Date: 3 Jun 89 14:40:28 GMT
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In article <8221@killer.DALLAS.TX.US> elg@killer.DALLAS.TX.US (Eric Green) writes:
[many fine words on the importance of running a business right]

>Porting is easy, and fairly cheap. Selling it can get expensive cheap.
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

   Just doing the minimum modifications and bringing the product to the
Amiga market will result in having your product panned in the press.  
Anything less than a full rewrite of the program will have people up 
in arms against you.  Look at Wordperfect.  Heck, they even added Amiga
menus to their product.  I thought it was nicely done, too.

   Yea, I'm doing a port also.  Let's just say it's a complete rewrite.
Based on my expectation of sales, I am not ready to give up my "real"
job.  It pays a LOT better.



>--
>    Eric Lee Green              P.O. Box 92191, Lafayette, LA 70509     
>     ..!{ames,decwrl,mit-eddie,osu-cis}!killer!elg     (318)989-9849    
>   "I have seen or heard "designer of the 68000" attached to so many
>names that I can only guess that the 68000 was produced by Cecil B. DeMile."


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