XyWrite and OS/2

["Carl L. Distefano" 70154.3452@xxxxxxxx]

Kenneth Frank says (03-26-95):

>...from a market point of view it would be foolish to put our
>resources into OS/2 without some sharing of the risk. Like it or
>not, Windows is where the numbers are.

True enough. But, in addition to absolute numbers, shouldn't you
also consider which OS user base is more likely to adopt a product like
XyWrite? Say the installed base for Windows is 30 million. If
you attract .001 of that base, you've only sold 30,000 copies.
Whereas if you're able to attract .02 of an OS/2 installed base
of 5 million, you've sold 100,000 copies -- more if the OS/2 user base is growing, as
IBM says it is, and the word-of-mouth about Xy is good (which we
presume it would be).

There's a strong argument that a WP like Xy -- which puts its
best foot forward when it's been customized by a reasonably
competent user -- is more likely to appeal to the
get-under-the-hood-and-tinker sort that seems to adopt OS/2, than
it is to the stereotypically "know-nothing"
Windows point-and-clicker. I realize that this is not the sole
consideration, but are you giving it any weight at all?

Having said that, if "sharing of the risk" is a sine qua non,
would it help if every OS/2 user in this Group chipped in a
hundred bucks or so? , or rather, .

Welcome here, by the way....

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Carl Distefano
70154.3452@xxxxxxxx