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From: lasteve@aix01.aix.rpi.edu (Steven D Borrelli)
Subject: Re:  Still no Ami businessware.
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Date: 23 Mar 91 18:43:34 GMT
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Mike Schwartz writes:

 Both Apple and Next (and recently Commodore, too) have found that the
 educational market is a great place to get a business computer launched.  By
 having campus-wide networks of Macintoshes, business school graduates come
 out with handson experience with the Mac.  In the real world, these grads
 naturally want to use the Mac again.
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I don't want to nag, but if Cmommodore wants to be taken seriously, they better start moving. Steve Jobs knows what sells.Look at the first two targets of NeXT: Academia and Business. He knows that software sells, so he's getting  all this software for his computer. They sell the NeXT in my campus bookstore (and a lot of other campuses, too), and sales are brisk. How can Amiga be taken serously if they don't cultivate an image of themselves that let other know that you can do a lot with such a slick machin




e. Don't forget, Jobs started the Mac by targetting colleges and getting cool software for it.
 
I know it may bias my opinion, but I just bought a NeXT. If I bought an A3000, I wouln't have been able to run a Mac-Like wordprocessor or Mathematica, or any of the three spreadsheets that are available for this *brand new* computer that has a miniscule base of users.  (You can flame me for my erroneous assumption about Amiga produts, but what buisiness/productivity/science/word processing software is out there? Most people look to software when buying a computer) 
 And something else that commodore should worry about is the MIDI market. The NeXT xomes with a DSP5600 chip that allows manipulation of cd-quality sounds in real time. There's no midi software out for the NeXT now, but Steve Jobs is being aggressive about pushing this computer into different Markets. 
People who buy Amigas and NeXT's are people who want Awsome computers and not what the corproate clowns are buying. If Commodore doesn't work on its image, its superior computer is going to be dismissed by owners of Macs and IBMs. MAybe they should look at NeXT to see what they are doing to answer the the question "how do you sell cool computers to people who are used to junk?" ;)


Steven Borrelli
lasteve@rpi.edu
