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From: paul@Data-IO.COM (Paul Brownlow)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.smalltalk
Subject: Re: PPS overpriced = low marketshare
Message-ID: <2734@dataio.Data-IO.COM>
Date: 3 Oct 90 01:00:20 GMT
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In article <51869@brunix.UUCP> ejd@iris.brown.edu (Ed Devinney) writes:
 >I just spoke to PPS yesterday, and they gave $3500 as a _site_ license fee 
 >(educational); $350 for an individual license.  Am I missing something?
   ^^^^^^^^^^^
That's the key - a lot of us out here don't fall into the "educational"
category and end up spend a lot more dough.
 
 >Anyone using Objectworks/St in a multiprogrammer environment?  Are we out 
 >of our minds to try to do so?

I worked on a ST-80 project with 4-5 programmers.  It's possible to succeed
if the areas of work are very well partitioned, otherwise you'll be pulling
your hair out (until you have none left) at "merge" time.

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