Newsgroups: comp.text
Path: utzoo!telly!eci386!woods
From: woods@eci386.uucp (Greg A. Woods)
Subject: Re: Price of DWB 3.1
Message-ID: <1990Nov22.200953.1658@eci386.uucp>
Reply-To: woods@eci386.UUCP (Greg A. Woods)
Organization: Elegant Communications Inc.
References: <16706@letni.UUCP> <2971@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> <1990Nov19.143129.12604@cbnewsl.att.com> <1990Nov19.155006.8461@noao.edu>
Date: Thu, 22 Nov 90 20:09:53 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.  After posting to this
> newsgroup I finally found one VAR whose price is $750 for a 1-2 user
> workstation.  In fact, after posting to this group no one gave me the
> names of any VARs selling binary DWB for a SPARC other than these three.

SoftQuad prices start at ~$975.00, according to the last price list I
saw.  For a 3B2/400 they quoted me $2,700.00 with PostScript, though
this will definitely be a multi-user license.  Not to mention that
sqtroff, and probably Elan's too, have some of the features 3.1 has,
as well as other features that may make it better for some people.

Why would anyone *buy* an X11 previewer?  You should get it from your
X11 vendor, or from the MIT contrib tape in souce form.

The cheap DWB-2.0 I was refering to in this newsgroup is the Leverage
Programmable Publishing System.  It's from Urban Applied Science,
Inc.  They were showing at the Fujitsu booth at UNIX Expo.  According
to their literature their port is currently available for 386's,
286's, Amdahl/Fujitsu UTS, and 3B2's.  Even on the Fujitsu it's only
$500 (+$275 for devps).

They have 1-800 support (30 days free, then $40/quarter), and e-mail
support, ($20/quarter).

They have a Cyrillic Edition too!

They supply jetroff and devps as options.

	Urban Applied Science, Inc.
	24 Commerce St.
	Newark, NJ
	07102
	{attmail,uunet},!urban!sales
	(201) 242-7230
	(800) 872-8763
	159 266 382 (urban) [Telex]

[ We should all fill their mailbox with requests for 3.1!  :-) ]
-- 
						Greg A. Woods

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