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Executor pricing (was Re: $25?)
Hi Folks,
Yes, our Linux prices are going to undercut our DOS prices, which
already undercut our NEXTSTEP prices. Here's the scoop:
When we finally start taking money for Executor/Linux, the rules will
be:
no guaranteed support
no printed manuals
delivery via e-mail (eventually via <serial number,
authorization key> pair)
$25 student price
$50 educational (Universities, Professors, Staff) price
$100 everyone else
No volume discounts
Free updates to the experimental version until 2.0 comes
out, but you have to pick them up electronically
The prices above are for while Executor 1.99<x> is being
worked on. Once 2.0 is a shipping product, we'll
reappraise it's price.
When that happens, we'll also be lowering our NEXTSTEP prices and we
may also adjust our DOS prices. As it is, we plan on getting
Executor/DOS 2.0 into our 1.x users hands cheaper than the $59 that
we originally envisioned, since we've pared back some of the proposed
2.0 feature set.
At this time, we do *not* know exactly what we'll do with our
NEXTSTEP and our DOS pricing. I'm always interested in suggestions,
(send them to "suggestions@ardi.com"), but due to our currently high
volume of e-mail associated with Executor/Linux, we will not
necesarrily be able to acknowledge your pricing suggestions.
Thank you for your interest.
--Cliff
suggestions@ardi.com