Good Bye
I know that it all has been said, but I would like to offer one more
thought.
Brown-Wagh jumped ship too soon. Our Amiga 3000 sales have been very
impressive. The questions we are asked as dealers is "productivity" and
"business" oriented. We happily point at Service Industry Accounting and
say what a super program!
But you know Brown-Wagh has released a few dogs. One is B-Graphics. I
have never seen a program that was so ill-behaved in a long long time. The
memory fragmented requestor for example. How in the world does B-H expect
a businessman (who that program was written for supposedly) to understand
that message. Further, why can a business man enter figures that will
bring the guru? That is not excuseable in any application program. This
program needs a lot more testing and a few more features. Dot matrix, low
resolution print-outs in today's world of postscript is not acceptable and
will not be taken seriously by anyone.
This message is not really to flame B-H, but to point out that "quality" is
important. Business software *must* be bullet-proof from data entry
errors. And in order for the Amiga to be competitve as a "business"
system, software must have features comparible (or exceed) their IBM
compatible counterparts. We have yet to have a decent spreadsheet, we have
yet to have an excellent graph program. We have yet to have software that
will solve many (any?) mid-level business problems.
B-H bailed out because of the bottom line. This is understandable,
however, B-H was part of the problem not just the Amiga community and the
Amiga market.
Take a look at AmigaVision sales, and tell me that it is a "enthusiasts"
market.
It is changing.
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