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echo: power_bas
to: KERRY VINSON
from: JOE NEGRON
date: 1996-04-19 21:29:00
subject: PowerBasic for OS/2

** Quoting Kerry Vinson to Joe Negron:
JN> Nobody is doubting that the Windows market is larger than the OS/2
  > market.  I, however, *am* doubting that, for PB Inc., at least, that
  > the Windows market is more *profitable* than the OS/2 market - being
  > a small fish in an ocean compared to being a big fish in a small
  > pond and all of that, you know.
KV> You are truly of a unique perspective, Mr.Negron.
Thanks (I think).
KV> And that is not to say that I do not concur with OS/2 being the
  > obvious market for the PowerBasic family of software. Oh, but I do.
It's pretty obvious to me that OS/2 is the market for PowerBASIC.
KV> Microsoft/Digital Equipment/MCI announced just a few weeks ago [...]
KV> IBM/Lotus/Novell/Netscape/AT&T is the other consortium. [...]
KV> PowerBasic would not do too bad to side with either one [...]
That's an interesting scenario you paint there, but I've seen no
indication from PowerBASIC that they have plans on going that route.
I also have doubts that there is a pressing business need for an
OS/2-Windows cross platform compiler.
            --From Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, NY, Fri, 04-19-96--
                --Internet: joe.negron@consultant.com--
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