| From: | Juan Carlos Marcos Rodr�guez |
| Date: | 14 Sep 2000 at 10:36:19 |
| Subject: | Re: AMIOPEN: Absence of VP in distros, and strategy |
From: Michiel Erasmus <Michiel.Erasmus@manpower.nl>
>>> bring out a version hosted over Windows9x, and watch sales
>>> figures fly.
>> That's a fact, if it runs NOW on windows(something) it's gona sell.
> The advantage of getting the SDK on windoze is that you attract
> maybe many developers
Ummm... Contradicting myself: Perhaps too many developers? Gary and folks at
support, getting swamped by requests?
> that attraction attracts sales revenues. Which means a bit of cash
> for Amiga, with the to follow advantages which Amiga can put back
> into R&D.
In a recent and interesting "interview" with Bill McEwen, at the Coyote Flux
website, he said Amiga has shipped fifty thousand copies of the present SDK,
which I believe could be the biggest selling product, with an Amiga badge,
in the last five years. That's maybe a couple million dollars worth of
profit, substracting production and distribution costs.
May I ask again, please, what about the free downloadable SDK? Perhaps
somebody will get angry at this question, but I'd still like an aswer.
Silence has its own meaning, but that would let me, and some other people,
make our own (negative) assumptions.
See ya!
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