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- From: enger@arco7.cc.bbsrc.ac.uk (john enger)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications,comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: OXXI - how to acquire products (SBase4, ACS/NetWare, TTX, etc.)
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- Date: 10 Apr 1996 13:38:16 GMT
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- David Waters (mbanet@netcom.com) wrote:
- : Oxxi's e-mail address is: 76711.457@compuserve.com
- : Oxxi is willing to support existing Amiga products at a "break even"
- : level. In other words, They'd need about $2500 in Amiga orders per
- : month to cover the salary of one developer (and that's cheap)!
-
- $30k a year. Nothing. Hell, it'd be worth AT subsidising companies like this
- until sales pick up. Considering the cost of TV/Magazine ads, $50k to
- proven supporters of the platform who develop the most impressive s/w for
- the machine with be money well spent - losing any more big name apps is not
- going help us at all. On the other hand, once they start dishing out money
- to developers, everyone will want some, all the time. Hmmm. Maybe some sort
- of deal could be worked out, so that AT subsidise certain developers
- expenses, and in return get a small percentage of the sales revenue? The
- companies stay in business, the Amy gets some impressive s/w support and
- AT has a more attractive product to sell. And another potential source of
- income.
-
- I haven't thought this through at all, I've just typed the idea as it
- dribbled out of my brain so its all a bit muddled, but anyway, what does
- everyone else think?
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