romwa@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca (Royal Ontario Museum) (04/05/89)
I own a 1040 STf with a FutureDOS 80 Meg harddrive which I really like, and like most ST owners have to defend when around my colleagues at work. From what I have seen, Atari's lack of acceptance in businesses might be changed if a large software company offered a major database product. And I don't mean dBMan (which I also own). What I am thinking of is an SQL based database with a 4GL and perhaps variable length text fields. Databases like Informix, INGRES, etc. come to mind. Perhaps with the TT, we will be able to capitalize on the UNIX database market and have people buying the TT as a departmental type computer. Anyone notice the success that SCO is having by offering not only XENIX but departmental computing and development environments. We have a number of '386 boxes here running XENIX with WordPerfect, FoxBase, SCO Professional (1-2-3 clone), and Informix. The other think I would love to see is some form of networking support. What do people think? Also, I really agree with an earlier posting which stated that buying software for the ST is not only ethical (which should be enough) but it makes good sense. With profit margins being as they are for the ST, supporting software companies by buying their software ensures enhancements and support (hopefully). Pavneet Arora ...!utgpu!rom!pavneet Royal Ontario Museum 100 Queen's Park Toronto, Ontario M5S 2C6 (416) 586-5626
Xorg@cup.portal.com (Peter Ted Szymonik) (04/07/89)
From what I've heard and seen in NY, a *lot* of businesses are giving the Atari DTP a good hard look - especially considering that for what they'd pay for an Apple laser printer they can get the whole ST setup! The PostScript compatibility did the trick. Peter Szymonik Xorg@cup.portal.com
GEnie-ALERT@cup.portal.com (Dave Ninjajr Flory) (04/08/89)
If you have a channel that carries Comuter Chronicles, you might find the upcoming TV story about Atari interesting. The just filmed a little piece for the beginning of it about our use of an ST for doing Accident Reconstruction drawings. Sounded like they, at least, are taking a serious look at Atari.