melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger) (03/24/90)
How is NeXT doing in motivating software companies to write for their
machine? Summer 90 is fast approaching(machine out Fall 89) and I
haven't heard about too many software packages for the Next? Just the
SOON TO BE RELEASED Wingz spreadsheet and Frame Maker. Are real
people buying the Next(you know 9-5'ers)? The 9-5'ers don't want all
that great free software that comes with the machine, they want
project managers, databases,... Maybe NeXT could give the software
developers a little history lesson. Tell them how Lotus became a
standard early in the life of the IBM PC and they have managed to hold
onto 50% of the market. Tell them about Word Perfect for the PC and
Word for the Macintosh have dominated their markets because they were
the best early in the life of their respective machines. When a piece
of software gets a foot-hold in the market it seems to stay there.
People being people, they don't want to learn something new,
especially when it comes to computers. I can think of these five
products off hand that are entrenched in the market.
The competition
Lotus 123 -- PC -- with Excel down its neck
Word Perfect -- PC -- Word chasing it
DBase -- PC -- Paradox, Foxbase, Clipper
Word -- Mac -- People gave Word Perfect Mac a thumbs down
Excel -- Mac -- Wingz, Full Impact
Lotus and DBase have managed to weather some pretty rough times even
when the competition was heating up and they (the competition) had
superior products. Any developers out there wanna have a guaranteed
income for the NeXT 10 years?
-MikeUH2@psuvm.psu.edu (Lee Sailer) (03/27/90)
In article <Ekouwn3@cs.psu.edu>, melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger) says: > The competition >Lotus 123 -- PC -- with Excel down its neck >Word Perfect -- PC -- Word chasing it >DBase -- PC -- Paradox, Foxbase, Clipper >Word -- Mac -- People gave Word Perfect Mac a thumbs down >Excel -- Mac -- Wingz, Full Impact You forgot COBOL. When are we gonna see COBOL and RPG II?? I'm not buyin a cube til we get some real software. 8-)