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- From: fr@compu.com (Fred Rump from home)
- Subject: Re: PC Unix/Xenix vendors
- Organization: CompuData Inc.
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 17:39:57 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.173957.16086@compu.com>
- References: <1993Jan17.162900.7342@sbcs.sunysb.edu> <C10GEC.KG1@news.rn.com> <1993Jan18.193031.971@compu.com> <C14Kvo.18F@ddsw1.mcs.com>
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- karl@ddsw1.mcs.com (Karl Denninger) writes:
-
- >In article <1993Jan18.193031.971@compu.com> fr@compu.com (Fred Rump from home) writes:
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- >>custome buys. He doesn't give a hoot about spending $200 more today, he
- >>worries much more about running his business reliably tomorrow and being able
- >>to call someone if something fails.
-
- >Correct. Nonetheless, $100 saved in direct costs you have to pass through
- >is $100 your customer doesn't pay.
-
- I believe the subject was upgrade cost. It was deemed to be more expensive
- than that of other vendors. Therefore the $200 which I mentioned.
-
-
- >If the only reason you are $2200 more expensive is that you made a decision
- >to use an operating system which is $2200 more expensive, and it doesn't
- >bring tangible benefits worth that $2200, you deserve to lose.
- >Every time.
-
- Why not pick $10,000 or any other arbitrary number. NONE of our customers EVER
- buys a development system. They simply buy the basic run-time and I have no
- idea where a $2200 DIFFERENCE can be established for me to lose anything.
- EVER. Users and developers are different animals. Users simply wish to get
- their own work out. Developers worry about how that can be done most
- efficiently and then sell their expertise to users for a price. That's the way
- the market has worked since the first hunter sold his extra rabbit for some
- veggies his neighbor had.
-
- It is called a system of resource maximization.
-
-
- >My job as an independant is to evaluate the available materials and come up
- >with the best possible solution. That evaluation not only includes costs,
- >but product stability and life-cycle costs.
-
- I thought you worked for the videocart company doing whatever they do?
-
-
- Fred
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