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From: sjorr@lion.uwaterloo.ca (Stephen Orr)
Subject: Re: Two Millionth Amiga Sold
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In article <39975@ut-emx.uucp> drxmann@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Dustin Christmann) writes:
>Also, while bigger companies do not necessarily sell better software, they set
>standards and sell computers. So while the topic is not necessarily "Amerika
>ueber Alles" the importance of the American market in the computer industry 
>cannot be understated. No Amiga is an island. If you don't believe it, look at
>how many software/accessories of American origin you have.

Let's not write off this machine before we get started. You mention 'Lotus'
perhaps not a very good example, Lotus is available on the NeXT, a machine
with FAR fewer units sold in any country, obviously Lotus is using something
else to decide when and where to develop.

Also, recent numbers indicate that the Amiga software market, is ABOVE the
industry projected growth (that is growth of microcomputer software sales),
and that Amiga growth is ahead of ALL other micros (including PC & Mac).

Commodore is very busy getting into multimedia in a big way. The CDTV is real,
it has Apple & Microsoft paying attention, and it will make a BIG impression.
The 3500 is real, it will be annouced (sometime ;-), and it will be followed
by other hardware.

In my opinion, as a developer, as a student, and a long time user of many
different types of machine, the Amiga is not even close to it's growth
potential yet, and we could still see surprising things from Commodore
in the future.

By the way, I know a bunch of people here (at Waterloo) who spent workterms
writing code for MicroSoft, specifically Window 3.0, and they ALL own Amigas.

						Stephen Orr
						SandIsoft

