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In article <1992Jul30.005304.7212@Trirex.COM> mmelling@Trirex.com(Michael  
Mellinger) writes:

> At the SIA show in NYC last month I talked to the Lotus people about  
> Improv 2.0.  They said that currently the *entire* Improv team is working  
> on Improv 2.0 for MS Windows, and that they don't have any current plans  
> to port it to the NeXT.

IMHO, It's their own doing.

If they had:

1. Priced Improv reasonably: it's too expensive for small businesses,
and was too cheap (free) for educational users.

2. Made a commitment to the further development of the product, and
not overplayed their stupid refusal to even comment on whether they
would fix bugs and add features.

3. Copy protected the software so people couldn't steal it, which
I have seen done (with WP as well).


> "If I poke myself in the head with this pencil will it hurt?"
> 
> is equivalent to
> 
> "Golly, if we only sell 50,000 computers will our company suffer great  
> pain?"
> 
> Now I'm waiting for NeXT to release a $10,000 RISC workstation that no one  
> can afford

We can, and we will.  So will lots of other folks who need the power
but would prefer to have it harnessed by NeXTstep.

--
Nathan Janette		"I'm a NeXTstep man,
Dept MB&B, Yale Univ	 I'm a NeXTcube guy"
New Haven, CT
nathan@laplace.biology.yale.edu (NeXT)