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Then again, think of the following overwhelming dominant products that
are has-beens: 1-2-3, dBase. IBM used to be successful at selling PC's.
And who had ever heard of Sprint and MCI.
Thankfully, competition works in a free economy.
Allan
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Robert Bunney wrote:
> The answer is to create a great upgrade and ship it. Hopefully TS 5.0
> is that upgrade. No matter how good the competition, it is *very*
> difficult to unseat the #1 product in any category. Take a look at
> Quicken and MS Money. Microsoft has been pouring money and
> resources into MS Money for years, and Quicken is still #1. Remember
> the battle between Word perfect and MS Word. It took a paradigm
> shift (DOS to Windows) to unseat Word Perfect. At this point I don't
> think that Omega has screwed up bad enough to lose the #1 slot.
> Take a look at the battle between Netscape and Microsoft. Microsoft
> is making progress, but only by tying the brower to Windows AND
> giving their product away! I have no particular love or hate for TS.
> As a consumer who is making my living trading the markets, I
> encourage any competition that provides me better tools and
> services. But I don't think TS will be as easily unseated as some
> on the omega-list assume.
>
> == Rob ==
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