🚀 go-pugleaf

Avi Rappoport (nilesinc@WELL.SF.CA.US) wrote:
: OS/2 is an alternative operating system.  We have no plans to re-write
: EndNote to work under OS/2, because we don't think we could sell enough
: copies to pay for the programming.

I agree that OS/2 is an operating system. I used to think that Mac was an
alternative too, until I started to use it. 

About the re-writing, etc.:

	(1) Are you doing the development work using a portable language?
		If yes, then it should not be that difficult. If no, then 
		I understand the difficulties you have.
 
	(2) I hope that your developers are aware of a dual-environment 
		development kit for Windows & OS/2. According an add,
		Micrografx Mirrors makes it possible to have a single
		source code that can be used in two operating systems
		(MS-DOS Windows and OS/2). Hey, over a million new
		users. As the ad said: "Look into it!"
			(in Computer Language, 10(4), p.56.)


: We are hard at work on our Windows version of EndNote, but we don't know if
: there will be a Plug-In Module.  That will depend a great deal on what
: Microsoft does.  They have been very cooperative on the Macintosh, so we
: hope that they will cooperate on Windows.

I'm glad to hear that you are working on a version for the MS-DOS's user 
interface, Windows. I'm also glad that Microsoft is scaffolding your
development work. Have you contacted IBM? 


: When our Windows version is released, it may work under OS/2.  We hope so,
: but cannot promise this compatibility.

When is the estimated time of the Windows version to be released? I definately
hope that your programmers, etc. know how to avoid extraordinarily memory, etc.
arrangements that would prevent it to be used under the OS/2. Think, just by
making it sure that it runs under OS/2 would give you many new customers!

: Avi Rappoport
: Niles & Associates, Inc.


Think Big, Think Portable!


//jarmo

ps. I think that Endnote+ and the EN+ Plug-in-module are great products and 
	that you would benefit of having your products available 
	in most platforms (e.g., X windows, NeXT, Sun, etc.).   


Disclaimer:  I don't have anything to do with any of the mentioned companies,
		except that I may have used their products.