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In article <1993Jan28.153310.21428@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> lmccullo@nyx.cs.du.edu  
(Michael McCulloch) writes:

> Oh yeah, the developer's edition according to the last official info I've
> seen is $2495 ($995 for runtime edition). We all hope NeXT is _just kidding_.
> If they price it that high, then it's gonna be _very_ hard to convince my 
> boss that we need (and can afford) NeXTSTEP.
> 
> NeXTSTEP 486 should be priced at $495 for the runtime edition, and $995 
> ($1495 absolute tops) for the developer's edition. Otherwise the market
> _will_ opt for NT (or SCO if they want UNIX) without a second look at 
> NeXTSTEP. You already have to have a loaded PC (memory, video, HD) to
> run it -- charging 995/2495 would be suicide.

Charging 995/2495 would hardly be suicide, it would be entirely in line
with the cost of competing unix systems for PCs.  However, one hopes that
NeXT will indeed lower the user version to $500 to attempt a cross-over
into the Windows NT and OS/2 market.  I doubt NeXT could go much lower than
that to try to grab Windows users, for example.  As for the developers
price, I don't have as much a problem with that costing more if it allows
the user price to be lower. 

Summary: we want NeXT for be *wildly*, not just incrementally, successful,
so let's hope a $500 user version price translates into mega sales.

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