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From: steve@gabriela.Tymnet.COM (Steve Sandke)
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Subject: Re: Neuron Data's Open Interface
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Date: 10 Jun 91 20:45:38 GMT
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In article <24873@dice.la.locus.com>, jfr@locus.com (Jon Rosen) writes:
|> In article <1991May29.175544.19397@colorado.edu> raney@yertle.Colorado.EDU (Scott Raney) writes:
|> >Read the fine print. Open Interface costs $12,000 for the development
|> >system and from $200-$500 per copy.  It doesn't look quite so
|> >appealing anymore, does it?
|> If this means that you need to spend $200-$500 dollars for each workstation
|> on which you RUN an Open Interface product, this is prohibitive (IMHO)...
|> However if it is just the cost for development versions, it ain't bad...
|> If you get royalty free code and no need for a run-time, the initial cost
|> of the development system isn't that bad...
|>  
|> Jon Rosen

If pricing is anything like it is for Nexpert, Neuron Data's other product, you probably have to pay for
each run-time.  Nexpert costs $1500/machine just to run programs you've written using their $10,000
development system.

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