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From: dlw@Atherton.COM (David Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.smalltalk
Subject: PPS overpriced = low marketshare
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Date: 29 Sep 90 00:19:37 GMT
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Just Think, if you are a student you can now buy a NeXTstation and get a
complete development environment with it for $2995. Thats cheaper than the cost
of PPS's product! Even retail is $4995...one could get gnusmalltalk and put a
nextstep GUI on it.

PPS is far too overpriced and will remain just a curiosity--in spite of the
enormous capabilities--because of its bizzare pricing structure.

As an individual I can buy an environment like say THINK C for $150 or so.
Now perhaps PPS is not interested in being a successful software company, 
perhaps its all that time spent in Xerox that has blunted their hunger to
make money and see their wonderful product in the hands of more people.

I' d like to think this is not the case. I mean who REALLY wants to program
in C++?
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