| [Rant] Microsoft to Exit Mac Market If Sales Continue to Lag | ANN.lu |
| Posted on 16-Jul-2002 23:29 GMT by Paul Smith | 71 comments
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If a serious software publisher plans to leave a platform with a huge userbase (surely we're talking in the hundreds of thousands for MacOSX?), then what chance does OS4 have of making it with promotion figures of about 600? (for forum)
Link to OSNews.com article
If nothing else, this proves what what many have been saying for the past 12 months (and openly ridiculed for). The days of binding your software to custom hardware are over.
Surely it is time that the people in charge of AmigaOS acknowledged that the non-mainsteam hardware route was a mistake. I'd bet that a similar promotion scheme for a version of AmigaOS that ran on the majority of the world's computers would have brought a much larger, and possibly commercially viable userbase. I'd also wager that the numbers sold would have been so, that it would have brought more revenue than the current scheme of selling hardware with it.
This is not intended as flamebait. I hope to provoke a discussion on the future of AmigaOS, rather than a flame-fest.
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| Posted by Anonymous on 17-Jul-2002 14:27 GMT | In reply to Comment 25 (reflect):
Well if we are boasting (bearing in mind we only switched this beast over to user-use after configuration 64 days ago)...
SunOS
5:20pm up 64 days, 10:59, 93 users, load average: 5.42, 5.40, 5.11
Status of processor 8 as of: 07/17/02 17:20:13
Processor has been on-line since 05/14/02 06:20:14.
The sparcv9 processor operates at 900 MHz,
and has a sparcv9 floating point processor.
Status of processor 9 as of: 07/17/02 17:20:13
Processor has been on-line since 05/14/02 06:20:25.
The sparcv9 processor operates at 900 MHz,
and has a sparcv9 floating point processor.
Status of processor 10 as of: 07/17/02 17:20:13
Processor has been on-line since 05/14/02 06:20:25.
The sparcv9 processor operates at 900 MHz,
and has a sparcv9 floating point processor.
Status of processor 11 as of: 07/17/02 17:20:13
Processor has been on-line since 05/14/02 06:20:25.
The sparcv9 processor operates at 900 MHz,
and has a sparcv9 floating point processor.
Status of processor 16 as of: 07/17/02 17:20:13
Processor has been on-line since 05/14/02 06:20:25.
The sparcv9 processor operates at 900 MHz,
and has a sparcv9 floating point processor.
Status of processor 17 as of: 07/17/02 17:20:13
Processor has been on-line since 05/14/02 06:20:25.
The sparcv9 processor operates at 900 MHz,
and has a sparcv9 floating point processor.
Status of processor 18 as of: 07/17/02 17:20:13
Processor has been on-line since 05/14/02 06:20:25.
The sparcv9 processor operates at 900 MHz,
and has a sparcv9 floating point processor.
Status of processor 19 as of: 07/17/02 17:20:13
Processor has been on-line since 05/14/02 06:20:25.
The sparcv9 processor operates at 900 MHz,
and has a sparcv9 floating point processor.
However, I completely agree with you re stability of Solaris et al compared with AOS - AOS has a long way to go (even AOS4 will have a huge challenge) to be anywhere NEAR as stable (I too have seen uptimes of well over 1,000 days on some heavily used Solaris servers here.) |
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