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- From: patel@key.amdahl.com (Chandresh Patel)
- Newsgroups: misc.entrepreneurs
- Subject: Re: Predatory marketing
- Message-ID: <3949@key.COM>
- Date: 30 Dec 92 00:31:50 GMT
- References: <1hbj79INNdur@uwm.edu>
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- Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Advanced System Division
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- -In article 1hbj79INNdur@uwm.edu, markh@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Mark) writes:
- ->
- -> What would it take to snatch away a sizeable fraction of the market on
- -> compilers or operating systems (say, PC-compatible C compilers) from the big
- -> guys, working from scratch with nothing but a software development system but
- -> unlimited access to innovative talent?
- ->
- -> Seems to me one possible answer is to write a compiler for a better, upwardly
- -> compatible, more useful, language and market the language with the compiler.
- -> There's plenty of room there, it appears.
-
- GNU C++ appears to have a good job at that.
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- Chandresh Patel Amdahl Advanced Systems, Fremont CA
- patel@key.amdahl.com
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