Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!bu-cs!bucsb!composer
From: composer@bucsb.UUCP (Jeffrey L. Kellem)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Turbo C 2.0, EMS, and style
Keywords: Borland International, pricing
Message-ID: <2298@bucsb.UUCP>
Date: 12 Dec 88 01:47:51 GMT
References: <1734@edison.GE.COM>
Reply-To: composer@bucsb.bu.edu (Jeff Kellem)
Followup-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Organization: Boston Univ Comp. Sci.
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In article <1734@edison.GE.COM> rja@edison.GE.COM (rja) writes:
>Borland has a VERY GOOD product at a reasonable price.
>
>3) If you don't like any of the above, use the command-line versions
>  of TC and get the stand-alone Turbo Debugger.  I'm sorry but the
>  upgrade from Turbo C 1.5 to Professional Turbo C 2.0 was ONLY
>  about $ 100.   That is still cheaper than anything Microsoft sells
>  and frankly at that price it is a steal !

Actually, it wasn't an upgrade, it was their introductory offer.
Trust me, when I "upgraded", they didn't even bother with old serial
numbers.  Hey, it may be cheaper than anything Microsoft sells, fine..
But, it is definitely NOT a steal anymore.  Especially, with the way
Borland has been heading in pricing and as it always has been with
upgrade prices.

I first got involved with Borland products early on with Turbo Pascal
version 1.0 (the 1024th copy  :-).  Since then, I've purchased several
upgrades and if I looked through old papers for my receipts, I'd come
up with a heck of a figure.  I've spent AT LEAST $200 in just upgrades
from version 1.0 (that doesn't include going to the Professional
Package for version 5.0, only the straight upgrade). I admit, though,
I wouldn't use any other compiler at the moment on the PC.  

But, Borland started out as a good company producing a very good
product for an excellent price (v1.0 of Turbo Pascal was $39.95, if my
memory serves me correctly, for you Borland history buffs) and has
since started leaning towards higher pricing strategies when they're
not necessary.  Yes, they're making more money now.  But, they could
still be making a lot of money even with lower prices.  I won't
continue rambling about this...it starts to get into philosophies on
software selling.
>
>Disclaimer:  The above aren't necessarily the opinions of GE, Fanuc,
>           or GE-Fanuc.  flames to /dev/null please.

Disclaimer: Opinions?  Oh, those things above..yeah, they're mine..I
            think..  ;-)
 
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