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In article <dillon.0qoo@overload.Berkeley.CA.US> dillon@overload.Berkeley.CA.US (Matthew Dillon) writes:
>    With no handy reviews to work from consumers are completely in the dark
>    when it comes to buying NeXT software, and many people are not about to
>    spend $500 just to see if the software does what they want.  The only
>    counterweight to all of this is the demo system that many NeXT software
>    vendors are using... that is, making demo versions of their software
>    freely available, sort of like the shareware approach, but this to
>    depends on the net which is not accessible to the majority of
>    consumers.
>
I agree that more reviews would be better.  Or , reviews in the
major trades by people that actually took time to examine the system.

>
>    Is, shall we say, extremely shallow.  For all we know the reduction of
>    bundled software could cause NeXT to grow more slowly then it otherwise
>    would.  Simply saying that since NeXT is still growing the lack bundled
>    software has no effect is, well, meaningless. It's the same type of
>    misleading argument that many politicians use all the time.  (not to
>    say you didn't mean well, but you are trying to reverse engineer cause
>    and effect and have simplified your results a dozen order of magnitudes
>    too much).

I am a big fan of bundled software.  But, I have been to more than
one 3rd party that said. "We're not competing with your bundled
software".  So, to get the houshold and less famous names onto
the box, the software has been unbundled.  WriteNow and Sybase
server are good examples of that.  Individuals are the ones most
hurt by undbundling.  Companies have started buying more because
of the fact more 3rd availability.



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