| From: | Gary Peake |
| Date: | 15 Sep 2000 at 18:38:59 |
| Subject: | Re: AMIOPEN: Absence of VP in distros, and strategy |
On Thu, 14 Sep 2000 11:36:19 +0200, owner-open@amiga.com "Juan Carlos
Marcos Rodr�guez" <jcmarcos@datavoice.es> wrote:
>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?
No, by estimates we can handle a substantial number of developers. Most
developers require very little actual "support" or hand holding. What they
require most of all is information, marketing strategies that work, and
tools.
>> 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.
15,000 not 50,000
>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.
No one has ever mentioned a "free" or reduced price version of the SDK.
Matter of fact, when this question has come up, I have been very open about
the fact that we will NOT be "giving away" the SDK to any groups.
Gary