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In <5gc3dg$lu4@client2.news.psi.net>, os2@mistik.express.net (Mustafa Soysal MS57) writes:

>He knows about the marketplace...so do I...is isn't there....

It's not there for you perhaps, but other companies are doing ok.  When IBM
stated that they were switching their focus to large corporate customers,
successful OS/2 ISVs switched their strategy to match.  A large corporation
doesn't have much use for a mine sweeper game or a small fax/data utility,
much as a small office/home office doesn't have a need for CICS systems or
automated tape changer backup software.

>If you don't mind David, tell us how many peoople registered your mine
>sweeper game for OS/2?  Got to be at least one person which was me...
>
>UnTieCom(tm) got about 200 customers at most, a lot of them not regisreted. 
>I haven't compiled the exact numbers.
>
>Describe went under, and I hear Stardock is complaining....

Describe went under because it was poorly run - they have also had
Win 3.1, Win95, and WinNT versions of their applications for several years.  It 
wasn't enough to save them.  On top of that, the president/owner of Describe
made few friends and many enemies by playing the games he did (copy
protection, accusations of foul play when IBM bought Lotus, etc.).  All in all,
a good study of a way not to run a software company.

>He is pointing out reality....Keep in mind, IBM owns Lotus and controls
>the development....IBM also knows how many copies of Lotus Smartsuite
>for OS/2 has been sold and registered by now.  IBM also knows how many
>people have purchased it in advance last year.  And IBM has decided that
>it is more beneficial to put out the other versions first....

Owns Lotus, yes.  IBM also owns the IBM PC Company, which doesn't pay too
much attention to OS/2.    They are completely different divisions.

G'Day,
Brad