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From: glang@Autodesk.COM (Gary Lang)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.smalltalk
Subject: Re: Interface Builders?
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Date: 9 Dec 90 23:40:36 GMT
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In-reply-to: khaw@parcplace.com's message of 8 Dec 90 00:52:11 GMT

> How easy is it to modify the look and feel of Windows 3.0, MacOS,
>OpewLook, Motif, OS2/PM, etc. (not that you're supposed to want to)?

And you don't so why should anyone pay $3500 for the priveledge?

The ParcPlace people would do well to take a look at all of the successful
development environments that have ever been released for the microcomputer
world. The really big successes are things like Borland's Turbo languages,
dBASE, Think C, and so on. None of these cost over $500.00 on the street
and most hove around the $100 to $200 dollar range. For those of you 
who don't live in the bay area, when John Dvorak saw the press release 
for ObjectWorks for C++ - another ParcPlace product priced at a couple
of thousand bucks, he said the same thing "get real, this is not how 
microcomputer software companies have made their mark" (not a quote).

Adele and company read my lips: microcomputers are not minicomputers.
A $5000 compiler on a VAX is worth about $50 on a microcomputer.
Isn't this obvious by now?