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From: farren@well.sf.ca.us (Mike Farren)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: Buying more market share for the Amiga
Keywords: Lotus
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Date: 28 Jun 91 18:30:29 GMT
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es1@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita) writes:

>griffin@frith.egr.msu.edu (Danny Griffin) writes:
>>es1@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita) writes:
>>>	If it only cost a couple of hundred thousand of dollars
>>
>>WordPerfect cost 3x or 4x that to port I believe.
>
>	How would you know how much WordPerfect charged? It isn't
>public information.

But it is public information.  WP, even if they haven't quoted the exact
amount they spent, has said that they had at least four, and possibly
five or six, programmers working on Amiga WP at the beginning.  Four
programmers at $25K/yr (cheap - it might be as much as two or three times
that much) amounts to $100K in cost of salary alone.  Add in overhead,
equipment expenses, and the like, and you can get to $300K *very* easily.
Get a bit more real on the salaries and associated expenses, and you're
right up around the half-million dollar mark.
-- 
Mike Farren 				     farren@well.sf.ca.us