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To: Sowbug who wrote (7922)	1/22/1998 1:04:00 PM
From: X-Ray Man	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 213173

I guess my problem with your analysis is my belief in what is very different about the Mac user base compared to Wintel. I believe that a large part of this user base are people who aren't sophisticated but don't want to rely on technical support organization or professionals. You precisely hit on why Access is cr*p for the low-end user: you gotta hire someone with specific skills to use it. We successfully have our secretaries maintaining DBs in FM Pro. Not possible in Access, and secretaries don't do wizards. FM Pro with Clarisworks fills out the low-end software requirements for the Mac user base that wants to "roll-their-own" with minimum level of sophistication. Claris has been very successful at providing these type of low-end products. My fear is that they are not the right marketing org for any high-end business product. Let MSFT do Access. My suspiscion is MSFT wants to do Access, but wants to blackmail AAPL into dumping FM Pro before doing so. Would be typical behavior for them.