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From: dennis@PEANUTS.NOSC.MIL (Dennis Cottel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re:  MACSYMA for the Apollo DOMAIN
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Date: Fri, 16-Oct-87 11:16:37 EDT
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We were interested in MACSYMA, but when the prices arrived in the mail,
our users reconsidered:

   Node license: $8,250
   Basic service: $1,740/year
   Full service: $2,940/year (Basic + 2 hours telephone assistance/month)

Does it really cost this much to provide a product for an Apollo-sized
market?  That's more than a basic DN3000 costs us in the first place.
Software prices are one of the reasons people here consider buying
PC-based systems over Apollos.

Now, if we could buy one license that could be used by anyone on the
ring when they needed to (assuming no one else was using it at the
time), then the $8K might seem possible.  At least then you could
share the cost among potential users.

	Dennis Cottel  Naval Ocean Systems Center, San Diego, CA  92152
	(619) 225-2406      dennis@nosc.MIL      sdcsvax!noscvax!dennis