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Subject: Re: Dan some will reason different, maybe

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 19:57:33 06/17/02

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On June 17, 2002 at 22:45:21, K. Burcham wrote:

>
>Can anyone seriously imagine that they would run it on anything except a Win32
>platform?
>
>Dan
>
>I think there are a lot of program buyers, Dan, that will not look at this the
>way some of the top guys here do.
>
>1. Fritz looks good enough in match to entice customer x to buy Fritz.
>2. Customer x sees at this forum or at chessbase site, that Fritz is not
>running on windows operating system.
>3. Customer x sees that Fritz is running on 8 processors.
>4. Customer x reasons that if he buys Fritz and top hardware, his system
>will be as strong as anyone, because he has top hardware available to the
>average customer.
>5. Customer x buys Fritz.

I suppose it might be possible because of the audience of Fritz being somewhat
more sophisticated than a commodity audience like for ChessMaster.  But still, I
will be dumbfounded if they choose UNIX.



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