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- From: andy@cbmvax.commodore.com (Andy Finkel)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
- Subject: Re: Future Amiga chipset
- Message-ID: <38118@cbmvax.commodore.com>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 21:28:41 GMT
- References: <38092@cbmvax.commodore.com> <BzMEAy.Esu@news.iastate.edu> <38103@cbmvax.commodore.com> <BznCB9.FKJ@news.iastate.edu>
- Reply-To: andy@cbmvax.commodore.com (Andy Finkel)
- Organization: Flying Cat, Inc.
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- In article <BznCB9.FKJ@news.iastate.edu> barrett@iastate.edu (Marc N. Barrett) writes:
- >In article <38103@cbmvax.commodore.com> andy@cbmvax.commodore.com (Andy Finkel) writes:
- >>In article <BzMEAy.Esu@news.iastate.edu> barrett@iastate.edu (Marc N. Barrett) writes:
- >only posted a message to comp.sys.amiga.applications complaining about the
- >total lack of tax preparation software for the Amiga. They replied, AGREEING
- >that the Amiga user base in the U.S. could not support even one good tax
- >preparation program.
- >
- >| Marc Barrett -MB- | email: barrett@iastate.edu
- >--------------------------------------------------
-
-
- So, I looked up the letter, as I said I would. The letter included
- the following phrase:
-
- : DataTAX for Canada is no more. I had tried to find someone to
- :take it over over but it was not to be. Datatax users will receive a
- :letter and a special upgrade offer to Quick Returns by Ontek, which is
- :unfortunately a PC DOS product. dataTAX/USA will be available in
- :January from OXXI, who will be sending letters to US customers in
- :early January.
-
- Now, you usually post from the USA, so I'm going to assume that
- the USA information pertains to you. (And you never mentioned looking for
- a Canadian tax prep software program in your initial posting)
-
- The phrase 'dataTAX/USA will be available in January from OXXI'
- implies that:
-
- 1) The dataTAX software for the USA will be available in 1993
- 2) OXXI has taken over the dataTAX/USA software
- 3) If you believe that dataTAX is a good piece of tax preparation
- software, then there is a good piece of tax preparation software
- available for the Amiga.
-
-
- So, if your goal was to find good tax preparation software for the
- Amiga...no problem; you can buy it from Oxxi. In fact, if you actually
- do put your money where your mouth is, and buy the software,
- and enough others buy it so the product makes money, then the product
- will be a success, and others might enter the market.
-
- Of course, if your intention was merely to flame, and you had
- no intention of every purchasing the program; well, having Oxxi
- distribute dataTAX/USA probably should interfere with that.
-
-
- The other issues you want to drag in (whether the dataTAX people
- want to continue in the Amiga market) are side issues to the main
- question you asserted you were asking, which was "Is there a tax prep
- program available for the Amiga".
-
-
- andy
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- andy finkel andy@cbmvax.commodore.com
-
- "Unix is the Operating System of the future, and always will be."
-
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