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From: es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita)
Subject: Re: Buying more market share for the Amiga
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Date: Sat, 29 Jun 1991 16:22:43 GMT

In article <25761@well.sf.ca.us> farren@well.sf.ca.us (Mike Farren) writes:
>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.
>-- 
	WP also has Atari ST and Apple II versions. Sure, that's
what it COST WP to port it, but there is no direct reason to
believe Commodore paid the WHOLE cost of the port! <jeesh, I at
least HOPE not 8>
	-- Ethan

FF buckets of bits on the bus,	FF buckets of bits.
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