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From: rcd@ico.isc.com (Dick Dunn)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: Price of DWB 3.1
Summary: ouch!!
Message-ID: <1990Nov17.013316.10065@ico.isc.com>
Date: 17 Nov 90 01:33:16 GMT
References: <1990Nov5.022533.29625@nixtdc.uucp> <1990Nov15.205157.20930@cbnewsl.att.com>
Organization: Interactive Systems Corporation, Boulder, CO
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npn@cbnewsl.att.com (nils-peter.nelson) writes:
> ...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).

A large company is going to want the source license, I guess, so that they
can afford DWB!

What do the rest of us do?  Does AT&T really believe that only "large
companies and VARs" want nice-looking output from their laser printers?

$500 is an exorbitant price for a "little" piece like DWB, when people are
targeting complete System V.4 UNIX releases for something in the neighbor-
hood of $1500-2000.  I'm afraid O'Dell is right.

I want DWB 3.1 for my use.  But will I be able to afford (i.e., cost-
justify) it?
-- 
Dick Dunn     rcd@ico.isc.com -or- ico!rcd       Boulder, CO   (303)449-2870
   Cellular phones: more deadly than marijuana.