NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #30/NN_1992_30.iso/spool/comp/unix/sys5/r4/881

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From: [e-mail] (Rick Schaeffer)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sys5.r4
Subject: Re: What is lacking in UNIX? (Re: UNIVEL MUST BE KIDDING!!!!!)
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Date: 19 Dec 92 01:07:13 GMT
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In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Raymond Shwake) writes:
>>> Make UNIXWARE $150 and you will see a different story.
>
>Given USL licensing fees, and the current business models driving the UNIX
>vendors, getting to this range is quite unlikely, but if they don't come
>close to it, Microsoft is going to clean their clock. Like "Poor George" Bush
>before the recent election, neither USL nor UniVel yet Get It.

Amen, brother!  I'm **real** biased toward Unix...but I just cannot
believe that USL/Univel don't seem to understand the economics of volume!
They could sell many thousands of copies at $150 and take over the
home PC market.  At $995 they *might* get a little more penetration
into the business market but for the most part they will only be able to
sell to the "converted".  They certainly WON'T get much penetration
in the vast home PC market ... and that's a real shame!
--
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