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From: obrien@aero.aero.org (Michael O'Brien)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.smalltalk
Subject: Re: PPS R4 under OpenWindows?
Message-ID: <87049@aerospace.AERO.ORG>
Date: 28 Sep 90 17:56:32 GMT
References: <26900005@sunc5> <427@scubed.SCUBED.COM> <44474@prls.UUCP> <34327@cup.portal.com>
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In article <34327@cup.portal.com>, cdurrett@cup.portal.com (chuck m
durrett) writes:
|> >Yes, but the REAL kick in the but is going from $595/$75 to $3500/$350 for
|> >development/runtime cost!  My company had just decided to go with PPS over
|> >Digitalk, since you got a lot more for a small difference in price. 
We will
|> >now be re-examining that decision, I can assure you!
|>  
|> My company too is re-evaluating PPS.  We will be looking closely at
|> Digitalk and maybe at picking up the GNU stuff.
|>  
|> PPS's justification in their newsletter mentioned that they could
|> no longer have two different prices for DOS and workstations.
|>  
|> Too bad they picked the wrong price to make "standard".

I have to agree.  I've had enough trouble selling Smalltalk around here
as a "closed" system.  I'm very much afraid that, in the light of PP's
other recent business decisions, Ralph Johnson may be incorrect in his
assessment of PP's marketing strategy here.  I'll be glad to be proved
wrong.  What I see locally is that time and time again, price has
knocked any consideration of going with a PP product into the weeds,
as far as Sun workstations are concerned.  I see a company trying to
improve its bottom-line status, that's all.
--
Mike O'Brien
obrien@aerospace.aero.org