Path: utzoo!telecom-request Date: 17 May 91 16:30:03 GMT From: The Super User Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Wanted: Recommendations For Small Key-System Reply-To: The Super User Message-ID: Organization: Info Connections, West Los Angeles Sender: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 11, Issue 370, Message 9 of 9 Lines: 27 In article umbc3!umbc3.umbc.edu! brian@uunet.uu.net (Brian Cuthie) writes: > My only complaint is that the guys at NT are missing the boat by > making the developer's kit too expensive (by expensive, I mean to the > tune of $25k!). They need to realize that if people buy the kit to > develop applications, they can only be run on NT hardware. I know someone who was working with NT on a vertical application for the Norstar. When management heard that he only expected to be able to sell a few thousand of his application, they forbid the engineers from speaking to him any more. They said they were interested only in working with "companies like IBM and DEC". They need to realize that the innovative applications for their Norstar are not going to come from IBM or DEC. NT should be giving away the developer kit to encourage as many applications as possible. As Brian pointed out, anyone who wants to run these app's will have to buy NT hardware. Northern Telecom has the right idea (opening up the architecture), but they need to make it affordable to the very kind of companies that have the potential to develop the killer applications that could make their Norstar the standard key system around which all custom applications are built.