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From: scot@netcom.com (Scot Campbell)
Subject: Re: Digitalk... The end...
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Date: Thu, 23 Feb 1995 18:56:26 GMT
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tgt@lanl.gov (Thierry G. Thelliez) writes:

>We need to start a cross-platform development involving Mac and PCs
>(and maybe Unix workstations).

>Somehow we where looking very close to Digitalk.

>1- They have stopped their Mac product.
I HAVE NOT HEARD OF THIS.  BUT THEIR EMPHASIS SEEMS TO BE WINDOWS.
THEY HAVE NEVER HAD THE CROSS-PLATFORM COMPATABILITY THAT PP HAS.
ESPECIALY WITH THEIR MAC PRODUCT.

>2- IBM sending out its VisualAge, Digitalk is going to lose a large
>   piece of the market.
I WOULD AGREE WITH THIS, IBM SMALLTALK SEEMS VERY GOOD. BUT,
THEY DON'T HAVE A MAC OR UNIX VERSION.

>3- They provide a bad customer service.
I WAS NOT HAPPY WITH THE WAY THEY HANDLED THE PROBLEMS THEY HAD
WITH THEIR VOS2 PRODUCT UNDER WARP.  MY INQUIRES ON THEIR CIS
FORUM GENERALLY GO UNANSWERED.

>Are this info correct ? Does this mean that Digitalk might end soon ?
I WOULD NOT COUNT THEM OUT YET.
