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- Subject: Re: Storm C++ out?
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- From: paul@serena.iaehv.nl (Paul Kolenbrander)
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- Date: Fri, 19 Jan 96 11:59:27 +0100
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- On Sun, 14 Jan 96, Doug Walker wrote the following:
-
- > "A company that dumped the Amiga as soon as things looked a bit rough?"
- >
- > SAS Institute stuck by the Amiga through two major releases during which
- > sales and income declined steadily. At a million dollars of development
- > cost, I defy ANY other Amiga developer to claim that their support for
- > their product demonstrated more support for the Amiga. The Amiga just
- > could not support a professional development system product, pure and
- > simple.
-
- Although I don't like your conclusion, I tend to agree with it. SAS isn't
- a charity organization, but in the biz to make a profit. And I agree that
- the kept in the Amiga market for quite a long time.
-
- I only hope that SAS will get back (maybe partly) into the Amiga compiler
- market. I've to much invested in SAS C (money and otherwise) to just go
- and switch to another compiler...
-
- Take care,
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