Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms.programmer
Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!daemon
From: tom@mims-iris.waterloo.edu (Tom Haapanen)
Subject: Re: Objectvision - a warning, & C++ too ?
Message-ID: <1991Mar15.125404.27410@watserv1.waterloo.edu>
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Organization: University of Waterloo, WATMIMS Research Group
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Date: Fri, 15 Mar 1991 12:54:04 GMT
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david foster <david@cernvax.cern.ch> writes:
> Borland have confirmed that the normal cost for objectvision will be $495 +
> $495 (the runtime is for an unlimited license). As Bruce points out for
> commercial use then the price is reasonable :-) I was going to use it for
> much smaller distribution.
> [...] By the way, Borland reminded me that there is a license charge for
> distributing applications based on Borland C++ 2.0 ($147) !!

A distribution charge for BC++?!?  So Borland is cheaper than MSC+SDK, but
then you spend $100 on manuals and $150 on a licensing fee, and you're
almost at the SDK price --- and still without a debugging kernel.  I'm not
impressed with Borland's hidden back-end costs...

Based on this, and on another article where the BC++ executable was 840K
compared to MSC's 720K, I think that if we do get BC++, it'll be for 
development only, and the final distribution versions will be compiled with
Microsoft C and SDK.

[ \tom haapanen --- university of waterloo --- tom@mims-iris.waterloo.edu ]
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