Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!spool.mu.edu!agate!mindseye!izumi From: izumi@mindseye.berkeley.edu (Izumi Ohzawa) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: Nemacs and NeXT -- Insane pricing of 2.1J OS Message-ID: <1991Jun25.192720.13835@agate.berkeley.edu> Date: 25 Jun 91 19:27:20 GMT References: <2422@solvalou.mech.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp> <1991Jun25.084107.15985@agate.berkeley.edu> Sender: usenet@agate.berkeley.edu (USENET Administrator) Organization: Univ. of California, Berkeley Lines: 31 In article youki@newmars.ics.osaka-u.ac.jp (Youki Kadobayashi) writes: > >>>>>> 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. > >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. What? Are you suggesting that Canon and other workstation vendors are engaging in price fixing to protect high prices of workstations? That could well be true judging from their behavior so far. Time to send Ms. Carla Hills again to kick these guys asses. Izumi Ohzawa [ $@Bg_78^=;(J ] USMail: University of California, 360 Minor Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720 Telephone: (415) 642-6440 Fax: (415) 642-3323 Internet: izumi@violet.berkeley.edu NeXTmail: izumi@pinoko.berkeley.edu