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Subject: Re: Dan some will reason different, maybe

Author: Marc van Hal

Date: 09:56:10 06/18/02

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On June 17, 2002 at 22:57:33, Dann Corbit wrote:

>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.

I gues you need a lot of money to keep on folowing your hoby's then.
Maybe Bil wil be king of the hill hehe.



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