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From: npn@cbnewsl.att.com (nils-peter.nelson)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: Price of DWB 3.1
Summary: Believe it.
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Message-ID: <1990Nov15.205157.20930@cbnewsl.att.com>
Date: 15 Nov 90 20:51:57 GMT
References: <1990Nov5.022533.29625@nixtdc.uucp> <1990Nov15.134714.15935@bellcore.bellcore.com>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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In article <1990Nov15.134714.15935@bellcore.bellcore.com>, mo@messy.bellcore.com (Michael O'Dell) writes:
> I heard a rumor which I simply can't believe is true, but thought
> people here might know the answer.  I was told that a DWB 3.1  source
> license costs $20,000!!!! More than the ENTIRE UNIX system did
> for COMMERCIAL purposes at one time???? This can't be true, can it??
> I mean, I looked at what they give you over DWB 2.0 and that
> can't possibly be right, can it??
> 
> Does anyone know for sure??
> 
> 	Astonished minds want to know...
> 	-Mike


Well, prices have gone up since 1970, you know.
This is a source license, so a company could/would
install it on lots of machines. The sgml translator
for the Sun is $12,500 for *binary*. S/370 Publishing
System from IBM is $50,000 for *binary*.  The target
for this product is large companies and VARs. I would
guess a binary from a VAR would price around $500
for a 386 or Sun 3, if they had a reasonable size market
(in the thousands).
University price is $1,000, so the only ones who should
be chagrined at the price are small companies who want
source. But why would you want source?
Anyway, Bellcore already bought it!