Path: utzoo!utgpu!cunews!spock!kim!kim From: kim@Software.Mitel.com (Kim Letkeman) Newsgroups: comp.text Subject: Re: Price of DWB 3.1 Message-ID: Date: 20 Nov 90 12:28:33 GMT References: <16706@letni.UUCP> <2971@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> <1990Nov19.143129.12604@cbnewsl.att.com> <1990Nov19.155006.8461@noao.edu> Sender: kim@spock Organization: Public Switching, MITEL Corporation, Kanata, Ontario, Canada Lines: 23 In-reply-to: rstevens@noao.edu's message of 19 Nov 90 15:50:06 GMT In article <1990Nov19.155006.8461@noao.edu> rstevens@noao.edu (Rich Stevens) writes: | In article <1990Nov19.143129.12604@cbnewsl.att.com> npn@cbnewsl.att.com (nils-peter.nelson) writes: | > | >List price for most workstations was under $1,000. | | Not quite. I talked to Elan (one of the bigger troff VARS, I'd | guess) and two months ago they wanted $1,795 for DWB 2.0 with a | PostScript filter. Add an X11 previewer and it's another $495. | This was all for a SPARCstation SLC, which I consider to be a | single-user system. I'd bet SoftQuad is as much, if not more. We're evaluating SoftQuad at this moment. They want about $2800 CDN per server. At least, that's what I got verbally. This makes them a good value for a shop with a number of users on a server. I called AT&T and was passed to head office in Toronto. They say that DWB 3.1 is not a supported product yet (i.e. I can't get it yet.) This may only apply to Canada, but from some of the recent postings, it looks like it's still a bit rough. -- Kim Letkeman kim@software.mitel.com uunet!mitel!spock!kim