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- From: evan@telly.on.ca (Evan Leibovitch)
- Subject: Hunter Systems Abandons the 386 UNIX market
- Organization: Somewhere just far enough out of Toronto
- Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 02:35:25 GMT
- Message-ID: <2A6B77EE.6AC6@telly.on.ca>
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- I recently received notice from Hunter Systems that it has immdiately
- dropped all sales and support for software using their "Transformers".
- That is, DOS-ported-to-UNIX software that they had been selling, including
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- Borland Quattro
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- DataEase
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- Microsoft Word
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- Xywrite
-
- will no longer be sold or supported.
-
- The company says it has few resources, and must steer everyone into its
- next projects, that is, porting MS-Windows applications to RISC-based
- GUI workstation environments. No medium-term plans for ODT, 386 Solaris,
- or any other Intel-based environment.
-
- None of these products is available at this moment. Since all of its
- previous (character-based) products have been withdrawn, this means that
- at this time, Hunter Systems isn't selling anything.
-
- I think the company has chickened out of the competitive 386 market,
- where the competition in spreadsheets includes Lotus, wordprocessors
- include WordPerfect and the *native* UNIX version of Word done by SCO,
- and the databases include FoxBase and dBASE. They're moving to
- (seemingly) greener pastures, where there are fewer DOS-like apps in the
- workstation market.
-
- I predict you can write this company off. Right now. Its translated DOS
- stuff just can't cope with competition from native apps. And outside the
- 386 world, there's less interest in apps ported from DOS anyway.
-
- --
- Evan Leibovitch, Sound Software Ltd., located in beautiful Brampton, Ontario
- evan@telly.on.ca / uunet!utzoo!telly!evan / (416) 452-0504
- Said Captain Jean-Luc Picard to the tailor at his machine: "Make it sew!"
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