Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!ccut!wnoc-tyo-news!astemgw!icspub!newmars!youki From: youki@newmars.ics.osaka-u.ac.jp (Youki Kadobayashi) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: Nemacs and NeXT -- Insane pricing of 2.1J OS Message-ID: Date: 25 Jun 91 11:58:47 GMT References: <2422@solvalou.mech.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp> <1991Jun25.084107.15985@agate.berkeley.edu> Sender: news@icspub.ics.osaka-u.ac.jp Organization: Dept. of Info. and Comp. Sci., Osaka Univ., Japan Lines: 34 In-reply-to: izumi@mindseye.berkeley.edu's message of 25 Jun 91 08:41:07 GMT >>>>> On 25 Jun 91 08:41:07 GMT, izumi@mindseye.berkeley.edu (Izumi Ohzawa) said: > What kind of INSANE pricing is that? > That's 80% of EDU price for a NeXTstation. In Japan, it's little fraction of the price for a NeXTstation. There are no EDU discounts. NeXTstation costs more than $16,000 if my memory is correct. > We couldn't have bought a NeXT machine from Canon even if we > wanted to. Actually we can't buy NeXTstation even if we wanted to. The main purpose of Canon's investment to NeXT is, in fact, to protect Japanese workstation market from cheap NeXTs, so that every Japanese workstation vendors can sell workstations in much higher price (thus they can make much money). That's why Canon became Asian official dealer for NeXT Computer System, and that's why they did not offer EDU discount. Canon was a guinea pig to protect Japanese WS market; of course every other hardware vendors could do this role, but Canon had some good reason; Canon is a official dealer for Apple Macintosh and Canon was big enough to make such investment. Hey Canon, prove me wrong and offer EDU price, if you _really_ want to sell NeXTs!! (The opinion expressed above is solely of my own..) -- Youki Kadobayashi Information Network Architecture Lab. Dept. of Info. and Comp. Sci, Osaka University, Japan