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In article <1992Sep14.132437.6038@dpp> dpp@athena.com (David Pollak) writes:
>In article <1992Sep13.003355.18481@unmvax.cs.unm.edu> ctm@ardi.com  
>(Clifford T. Matthews) writes:
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>> I'm not going to do a feature for feature comparison between Excel
>> under Executor and Mesa, Wings and Improv; but I do encourage
>> everyone to examine *all* sides before making a decision.
>> 
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>Executor offers the ability to run good software on the best platform in  
>the world.  This is good.  Once again, I did not buy my NeXT to run Mac  
>software.  I bought it to run NeXT software.  I would like to use Executor  
>to run stuff that is not available on the NeXT (like DAC Easy Light  
>accounting... does it work yet?)  But once there is an accounting package  
>for the NeXT, I'll move away from DAC and into the new accounting package.
>

Cliff's point is that you should examine the features of the applications
_themselves_. There is no point in buying an app _simply_ because it is
native on the NeXT. The number of features that specifically depend on
the NeXT platform is small compared to the total set of features offered by
that app. The customers will decide on a feature by feature basis - why
expect them to buy a product that is possibly more expensive with less
functionality _just_ because it was written specifically for the NeXT?
(No implication about Excel/Mesa intended).

Dave Griffiths