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In article <1992Apr9.190936.29678@cco.caltech.edu> ernest@pundit.cithep.caltech.edu (Ernest Prabhakar) writes:
>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.

In North America, there are few 'value buyers' when it comes to computers.
NA corporations buy according to 'religion', or absolute $$$. Not to
mention all the deals made on the golf course as VP's are hard at work. At $995
NeXTstep is worth it to the end user, but try to show a business manager
this and he/she will point to their $99 Windows upgrade.  What they don't
see are support costs and the twice yearly upgrades to the all the programs
running on that DOS/Windows machine.

>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.

SCO list price in Canda is about $1600 (Cdn), but it's available from many
discounter at about $1100 (Cdn).  However, that is without TCP/IP, NFS,
GUI, and many other of the goodies that are included in NeXTstep.  No value
there by comparison. I haven't seen prices for the other technology.
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