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In article <5g93c3$1u2$2@ordeal.cts.com>, Will Rose <cwr@cts.com> wrote:
>David Charlap (david@visix.com) wrote:
>: Michael Perry <mperry@basin.com> wrote:
>: > 
>: >One hopes with all these "statistics" bantered about that they decide to 
>: >tend to their own backyard and make their own suite of applications a 
>: >powerful alternative instead of just an alternative.
>
>: And I sppose you'll want them to devote 10,000+ man-hours to the
>: project, and you'll want IBM to give it away for free - thus running
>: all the OS/2 app suite vendors out of business.
>
>: Then you'll complain that there aren't any apps.
>
>Why on earth do you say this?  Lotus have dragged their feet for

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

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....

>years on OS/2 apps, and plan to drag them for a few more, and you
>are *defending* them?  If they'd said from the beginning "We don't

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....

>give a stuff about OS/2, never have, never will" at least customers
>would have known where they stood, and another company might have
>been able to take up the slack.  As it is, there are still no really
>effective office suites for OS/2, tho' you can hack together
>substitutes; and I suspect that's a large part of why OS/2 is dead

I agree with that....Let's move on to Windows as our finances permit.

>in the water.  A decent native office suite, a couple of years ago,
>might actually have saved Warp 3.0; it had almost everything else.

Well, I do have the Smartsuite that came out initially.

>
>Will
>cwr@crash.cts.com
>

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