| From: | Victor I. Haaz |
| Date: | 13 Sep 2000 at 23:13:16 |
| Subject: | Re: AMIOPEN: Re: |
Hello Claus,
From: Claus Luethje <luethje@osys.ch>
>> Yes? How so? The companies with a _motive_ to do so couldn�t care
>> less for if their software is "approved by Amiga" or not...
>
>Well, they can't be forced. But others who provide a VP version will have a
>bigger market. So they can provide a comparable solution for less cash.
>If the companies, which don't care, provide say a Mac and a Windows-version of
>their application, they will need more time and money for improvements as
>everything
>has to be implemented and tested twice. And data exchange isn't guaranteed
>between
>their versions of the same programm.
>Having a VP version is cheaper and faster to make, easier for users (they can
>buy
>any hardware (almost), without worrying that their software stops working).
>So I guess, companies, ignoring the possibilities of 'write-once-run-anywhere',
>might
>have some hard times.
It would be really true if the market would be fragmented equally. But note that
there is one platform/OS ruling the 95 percent of it, ATM. So companies only go for
it won't miss too much _ATM_. (I just wonder for how long this moment could be
stretched this way...) OK, there is/will be some new "aspects".
>I doubt, that M$ would provide VP software. M$ would rather try to buy AmigaInc,
>than develop for Ami. (don't want to start a rumour here).
>Economically, it would make more sense to go VP. But as there are political and
>contractual reasons it won't be easy to convince them.
Do you mean the OS-half, or the Apps-half?... :)
>There are a lot of aspects to this issue. It's very interesting to discuss it,
>but
>there is too much speculation about it atm.
True. Indeed without knowing those behind-the-scene happenings G'o'tz mentioned...
But better to not risk (unnecessarily?) too much, isn't it?
Victor
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