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Interesting message. I only have a few facts available to me. Bear with me on this. WP Amiga came out. WP Amiga paid all it's development costs within sixty days of the product going on sale. Almost all of the Amiga magazines that talked about WP Amiga made a very big stink about that, that a product could sell so well as to recover the development costs so quickly. The fact that you provide, that the Amiga version has not developed enough revenue to justify a new version, or improvements, only means one thing in my mind. People bought the product when it was first released, without question. A lot of copies were sold. People soon discovered that the product wasn't really 'Amiga-ized' in that it just didn't 'fit' right on the Amiga workbench. The interface had very little to do with the Amiga, save the pull down menus. Magazine reviewers gave WP a mediocre review, at best. You see, Amiga people just don't settle for second best. If we did, we'd all have Macs or PC's. The Amiga market is different, and it's Word Perfect Corp's relatively poor design of WP Amiga that ultimately did it in. This isn't intended to be a flame of any kind. It's a mere compilation of the facts, past public record, and the facts that you have made public via your message. It's unfortunate that Word Perfect Corporation chooses not to learn from it's error, and invest in a version of WP for the Amiga that would meet with approval from the Amiga community at large. It is a sad waste of resources, as a great deal of work has been done, and the experience of WP Amiga could be the seeds that form a much better product. I suspect that some complacency on the part of the people that make these decisions is probably to blame also. I can picture a collection of executives saying "those Amiga users must be really stupid. It's *Word Perfect*…how can they NOT like it??" I hope I'm wrong on that one. That sort of attitude won't bring any prosperity to a corporation like Word Perfect in this ever-changing, multi-platform society. DOS ports just don't cut it. Not in this neck of the woods anyways. Thanks for your message.