I understand all of this. I used to sell both. I am not here to develop partisan positions, nor am I the person who swears by one OS or another and prone to participation in wars of adamant allegiance to a product or another. Microsoft's products are good products and many people enter the fashion of detracting them. I will not. Word Perfect is also a good product, but they failed in its marketing a very long time ago. My point was absolutely NOT to compare the two, but to use their presence as a vehicle of comparison related to the music software market. Let this be the sole purpose of what I said. Otherwise the discussion will be steered towards the merits of Office and WerdPerfect and not serving our original purpose: to finally nudge the music software manufacturers to integrate. If not, the maturing of the market WILL make them do so, inasmuch as consolidation will set in, just as it happened with the development platforms.
John. On Fri, 06 Oct 2006 04:08:29 -0400 dhbailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > John T Sylvanis wrote: > >>> Short of being Warren Buffet or Bill Gates or Paul Allen and > being > > able to hire your own development team to give you what you want, > you're > > stuck with what's available. :-) >> > > > > That's exactly what my point is: we're stuck with whatever the > > manufacturers offer us. And they don't fasten the pace of > development > > because they don't have to. Microsoft was first to offer the > Office suite > > and that's why WordPerfect and their suite don't have market > share. They > [snip] > > WordPerfect doesn't have market share because Microsoft for many > years > gave such a sweet deal to computer manufacturers who licensed > windows, > if they also licensed Office. > > Pure economic strong-arm tactics forced Office onto millions of > computers that otherwise the owners would have had to look at the > actual > features and capabilities of various competing word processors, > database > managers, spreadsheets. > > You seem to be thinking that Office has such a huge market > penetration > because it actually offers the users what they want. I don't think > > that's the case. > > -- > David H. Bailey > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > > _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
