| From: | Martin Baute |
| Date: | 15 Sep 2000 at 20:48:24 |
| Subject: | Re: AMIOPEN: VP vs native binaries |
Hello Barry
On 14-Sep-00, you wrote:
>> All this from the point of view that companies like "Big
>> Bill" could try
>> to make Ami a failure by _providing_ software. Nasty, but that�s the
>> way Microsoft operates.
>
> I don't think this will be an issue. Say for example Microsoft ports Words
> *shudder* to the Ami platform. Why would they want to include only an x86
> version? They already have that and it is selling well...MS Word for
> Windows. If they did not want to write one application that would run on
> (essentially) every system supported by Ami, they would just stick to the
> platform they ALREADY have support for...Windows. MS is a very underhanded
> and unfair company who would not think twice about using every dirty trick
> they can think of, but I think they'd be doing themselves a disservice by
> only providing an x86 binary.
Press competition out of the market, narrowing down effective Ami use
to the x86 platform, thus giving Ami no chance of competing against
Windows in the desktop area, making Ami an embedded OS option only,
making Ami�s chances for big success slim to nil...
>> "Our app is so big, why ship two sets of binaries if x86 is covering
>> 95% of the market? Gee, we could save the CD space and put on
>> yet more fonts, clip-arts, ads or whatever instead..."
>
> True, but (supposedly) VP binaries are often smaller than native binaries
> (heh heh...take a look at x86 assembler...I don't doubt it for a minute).
> AND by supplying VP binaries they could cover 100% of the market rather
> than 95%.
M$ never cared for .exe size, and they couldn�t care less for supporting
other platforms, look at WinNT for Alpha...
Regards
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