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From: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: An interesting idea...
Message-ID: <1991May6.110530.7978@sugar.hackercorp.com>
Organization: Sugar Land Unix -- Houston, TX
References: <rbaGn&?=1@cs.psu.edu> <1991May5.115329.24187@sugar.hackercorp.com> <_g5Gy0x*1@cs.psu.edu>
Date: Mon, 6 May 1991 11:05:30 GMT

In article <_g5Gy0x*1@cs.psu.edu> melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger) writes:
> In article <1991May5.115329.24187@sugar.hackercorp.com> peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
>    If I hear "educational discount" prices for the NeXT once more I'm going to
>    scream. I shall go stark raving mad and I shall take you with me. We will
>    be very happy together in a rubber room.

> I can get an 25MHz Amiga 3000 for $2200 with an eductational discount
> :-).


Aaaaargh!!!!!!!!!! Bwahahahahahahaha!!! Phhhhhhphphpht! The Tuna! They are
calling me. Nyuk nyuk nyuk.
 
Oh, a wise guy, eh? *Poit*

> That depends on the audience that you're talking to.  It sounds to me
> like most of the people who I am arguing with are definitely college
> students.

With the luck to be at the right colleges?

> The prices did seem a bit high, but they looked like standard business
> prices.  $995 for FrameMaker(it's the same on the Mac, Sun and NeXT?).
> Packages like WP, Illustrator, Wingz, Improv,etc go from $395 to $695.

Yes, but that's *all* that's offered. Where are the $20-$50 programs?

> Most of the stuff that I use comes free with the NeXT or is available
> by anonymous ftp.

Yes, and most of the stuff I use comes free with the Amiga or is available
on BBSes and for anonymous UUCP. But you or I are not the marketplace that
make a machine a success. You have to get it to end-users, and they need
software. Why should they pay $5000 for the NeXT and $400-$700 a pop for
packages when they can get a PC with Windows or a Mac for $2000 and pay $200
to $400 a pop for software?

The Amiga has a lot of end-user markets that don't compete with the two big
boys. What does the NeXT have?
-- 
Peter da Silva.   `-_-'
<peter@sugar.hackercorp.com>.
