Date   : Mon, 20 Jul 1987 07:13:41 PDT (Monday)
From   : Chapman.ESM8@Xerox.COM
Subject: What personal computers are in Europe? in Isreal?

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A friend of mine will be going to England and Isreal for a month and a
half around Christmas time.  He does software development on an IBM PC
using dBase III+.  He would like to explore the possibilities of
marketing his services in Europe (England particularly) and Israel.

So I'd appreciate any answers to the following questions, for Europe, in
general, England, in particular, and for Israel:

  1.  What computers are most common?  Are they IBM PC compatible?
  
  2.  What operating systems are most common?  Are they MS-DOS/PC-DOS
compatible?  CP/M compatible?  Can dBase III+ run under the operating
system?  dBase II (he also has lots of experience with that)?
  
  3.  How common are personal computers?  Who has them?  Are they used
for business use only?  Personal use?  Both?
  
  4.  Is there likely to be a market for small business software for
handling customer and vendor bases, inventory, ordering, invoicing, etc?
What will the market bear, price-wise?  Must the price be under $100?
$200-500?  Will a package that costs over $1500 sell?
  
I appreciate any comments you may have.

Thank you,
Cheryl