CompuServe Messages

No need to preach to the converted. When I talked to Jeff Stilley, the Vice President of Commodore US Sales I told him exactly the same thing. He was busy telling me that UNIX was a "completed" product and that there was really no need for further development. Now that the last three UNIX people have quit from Commodore, I am watching eagerly to see if Commodore rehires UNIX people. If they don't, color that product dead. At least in my professional opinion. I can not and will not advise my university or others to purchase a product that there is no active development in. I might consider it if UNIX was a mere application program, but an operating systme requires full time support and full time continued development. I wrote an article two years ago called "Can Commodore reach for the Sun?" and it was my thoughts about Commodore entering the UNIX marketplace. It has been my belief all along that Commodore would never grab the UNIX marketplace, but I felt that if they kept the price vs. power in mind that they had a shot in capturing the low-end market. I felt that the low-end market would remain open because folks like Sun want to sell big-mamma UNIX boxes. Commodore, probably through no fault of their own, priced the UX too high. The question always came to be "Why should I buy an Amiga instead of a Sun?". Anyway, I am hoping that Commodore is not developing a new machine with a new operating system. I think it would be a terrible mistake, and honestly I don't think they could afford to make that one. -mark= – via Whap!