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In article <1992Apr9.180629.16018@cs.yale.edu> nathan@laplace.biology.yale.edu  
(Nathan F. Janette) writes:
> In article <3526@rosie.NeXT.COM> Lyle_Scheer@NeXT.com (Lyle Scheer) writes:
> 
> > As has been said before in this newsgroup, if you look at
> > all the stuff that   NeXT sells to EVERY NeXTStep user, a
> > comparible package for ANY other computer   would run well
> > over $5,000.  I'm of the impression that the price we've
> > set is   extremely cheap for what you get. 
> 
> While philosophically true, the above doesn't count for beans
> toward the success of NeXTstep 486 if customers refuse to pay
> the $995 asking price.

Just for comparison, could someone tell us what Windows NT, Solaris, and SCO  
Unix cost for an i486 box?  That is the relevant competition, after all.

And, don't forget that if they did sell at for $295, all us students would  
start clamoring for a $99 version. :-)  They need to sell it at least twice  
cost so they can sell it discounted at cost!  NeXT is, after all, targeting  
high volume purchasers like Fortune 500 companies and discount customers like  
Higher Ed.  Not the 'mail order operating system' market.

- Ernie P.
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Ernest N. Prabhakar                  Caltech High Energy Physics
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CaJUN President        NeXTMail:ernest@pundit.cithep.caltech.edu
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