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From: glenn@heaven.woodside.ca.us (Glenn Reid)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: NeXT for Mac users (was Mac Emulator)
Message-ID: <298@heaven.woodside.ca.us>
Date: 16 Oct 90 20:37:00 GMT
References: <1990Oct16.125905.18833@abcfd20.larc.nasa.gov>
Reply-To: glenn@heaven.woodside.ca.us (Glenn Reid)
Organization: RightBrain Software, Woodside, CA
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In article <1990Oct16.125905.18833@abcfd20.larc.nasa.gov> alandail@applelink.apple.com (Alan Dail) writes:
>      One thing that troubles me though, is software for the NeXT seems
>to cost 2-3 times more that comperable Mac software.

Not true.

Adobe Illustrator will sell at exactly the same retail price as on the
Macintosh.  Lotus Improv is about $595 (from memory).  WordPerfect is
$495.  FrameMaker is $995.  TouchType, our product, is $249.
LightHouse's Diagram! is $249.  Stone Design's TextArt is $375.

There is plenty of affordable software, and most of the software is
being priced at "PC" prices, not at workstation prices.  There is
plenty of very expensive software on the Macintosh, too.

-- 
 Glenn Reid				RightBrain Software
 glenn@heaven.woodside.ca.us		PostScript/NeXT developers
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