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From: warner@scubed.com (Ken Warner)
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Subject: Re: PPS overpriced = low marketshare
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Date: 3 Oct 90 14:43:50 GMT
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In article <2734@dataio.Data-IO.COM> paul@Data-IO.COM (Paul Brownlow) writes:
--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.

For the past two years we've been using XSIS's Analyst to prototype an 
approach to project managment.  Analyst is a great tool.  But around here, as 
people become aware of the new price their attitude is, "...well, that about 
kills it," meaning pursuit of future business based on Smalltalk/Analyst is 
simply not a reasonable thing to do because our clients will not spend that much
money on Smalltalk.  And we will not spend that much money on Smalltalk as a 
prerequisite to development.

Sigh!  Guess I'll dust off my (bleah) X Windows manuals.

Ken Warner