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From: bmwu@athena.mit.edu (Benson M. Wu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Price of Diagram!
Keywords: Diagram!
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Date: 13 Nov 90 18:58:06 GMT
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	I received the following e-mail from Jonathan Schwartz 
of Lighthouse Design, Ltd. after I whined on the net about
the high prices of NeXt peripherals and softwares.  
What a deal!  Every university that carries NeXT should
consider carrying Diagram!  I definitely want to check this
software out.  I just hope other software vendors are
as reasonable as Lighthouse Design and not like Frame Technology.

	Best regards,

	Benson Wu
	bmwu@athena.mit.edu

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>Benson-

>Re: your post of 10 Nov:

>[...]

>>In any case, I went to a demo put out by Boston Computer
>>Society last night for NeXT.  I was really impressed by 2.0
>>and the '040 station there.  I just wish the prices of
>>the software and peripherals will come down from Workstation
>>price range to PC range.  If that doesn't happen, NeXT will
>>never become affordable for joe average.

>[...]

>As the sales and marketing manager for Lighthouse Design (we produce Diagram!, a  
>graphics app, along with a variety of freeware and PD material), I was wondering  
>what you thought were fair prices for PC software, ie, not Workstation material. I  
>>can tell you that we as a company wrestled for a good long time over an appropriate  
p>rice. In the end, we decided to list our app at $399, to be discounted through  
>NeXT Connection for under $250. These are Commercial prices. For Academia...

>The first copy to a university will be $200 (on floppy). Subsequent copies to  
>faculty/staff will be $75. For students, Diagram! will be $10. That's ten dollars.  
>Surely this will be affordable? (And if it's not, just tell us what is...).

>The $10 copy will come with license and registration, documentation and sample  
>files. The full commercial distribution. If this sounds unreasonable, please offer  
>your suggestions--we pride ourselves on being attentive listeners. 


>If it sounds reasonable, please tell a couple friends, and have them do the same...

>We'd like to think we're keeping "joe average" in mind. After all, we're a company  comprised of them. Thanks for your ear.

>Jonathan Schwartz
>Lighthouse Design, Ltd.