CompuServe Messages

OK Betty – No more beating around the bush – here's the problem: there can be no adequate support without a mission defintion. Think of any endevour, personal, business, military – any aspect of life) that does not have a clearly defined mission or goal. Much handwaving takes place, energy gets expended an no progress is made. Like it or not, the A500 has by default assumed the mission of C64/128 replacement for game playing and light household computing. The A3000 has the mission of cracking the Unix educational market and filling the vacuum left by Sun's exit of the 680×0 workstation market. Now, what is the mission of the A2000? When you think about it, certainly in terms of 3rd party vendor support, it is THE most versatile Amiga. But CBM has let it sorta flounder around trying to find its niche and hasn't taken the lead in "raising the child". No leadership, no mission defintion, no goal, no advertising, no sales and all of a sudden no machine! (I seriously doubt most of us will step up to unix for our basic home/single user semi-professional use – its just too expensive.) Look at IBM and MAC ads. They are purposely targetted to take any niche AMiga might have a potential in gaining away from CBM. And, as usual, CBM is handing over the high ground by virtue of their lack of action (or action so conservative that large numbers of people have never seen an AMiga ad). This is the crucial point at which CBM should be going for broke in establishing their credibility in the single user home/small business arena even if the emphasis is DTP/Video/Graphics. There is enough happening in the technical arena that any slight advantage Amiga has in these areas will be gone by next year. Its now or forever the fragile machine on the edge of extinction. wmc