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- From: nathan@laplace.biology.yale.edu (Nathan F. Janette)
- Subject: Re: NS 486: Begin the Quest
- Message-ID: <1993Jan28.210940.7494@cs.yale.edu>
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- Organization: Yale University, Department of Computer Science, New Haven, CT
- References: <1993Jan28.153310.21428@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 21:09:40 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan28.153310.21428@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> lmccullo@nyx.cs.du.edu
- (Michael McCulloch) writes:
-
- > Oh yeah, the developer's edition according to the last official info I've
- > seen is $2495 ($995 for runtime edition). We all hope NeXT is _just kidding_.
- > If they price it that high, then it's gonna be _very_ hard to convince my
- > boss that we need (and can afford) NeXTSTEP.
- >
- > NeXTSTEP 486 should be priced at $495 for the runtime edition, and $995
- > ($1495 absolute tops) for the developer's edition. Otherwise the market
- > _will_ opt for NT (or SCO if they want UNIX) without a second look at
- > NeXTSTEP. You already have to have a loaded PC (memory, video, HD) to
- > run it -- charging 995/2495 would be suicide.
-
- Charging 995/2495 would hardly be suicide, it would be entirely in line
- with the cost of competing unix systems for PCs. However, one hopes that
- NeXT will indeed lower the user version to $500 to attempt a cross-over
- into the Windows NT and OS/2 market. I doubt NeXT could go much lower than
- that to try to grab Windows users, for example. As for the developers
- price, I don't have as much a problem with that costing more if it allows
- the user price to be lower.
-
- Summary: we want NeXT for be *wildly*, not just incrementally, successful,
- so let's hope a $500 user version price translates into mega sales.
-
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- Dept MB&B # Upon your cross I bleed the thoughts that I've been hiding.
- Yale Univ/HHMI # I'm all used up; there's not much more for me to give.
- New Haven, CT # Echoes of the life that we all want to live."
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