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In article <3526@rosie.NeXT.COM>, Lyle_Scheer@NeXT.com (Lyle Scheer) writes:
> In article <1992Apr6.192248.15847@glv.uucp> jcelam@oops (James Clifton (Cliff)  
> Elam) writes:
> > 1> NeXT should sell the runtime stuff for $250 or less.
> > 2> Developers should be able to distribute the run-time (a la' windows 
> >    in the old days) for close to nothing.
> > 3> The developer version cost is irrelevant - people were developing for
> >    windows when the SDK cost 2K+.
> > 
> Um... Gee, I don't think $250 would cover the royalties that NeXT pays for  
> using such things as:  Unix, NFS, Postscript, richtext, and others (only four
> I could think of at the moment, but I'm pretty sure we pay royalties for other
> things as well)
> 
> In other words, I don't think $250 would cover OUR costs.  We'd be selling it 
> at a loss.  Not a good thing to do.
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Some companies are willing to absorb an initial loss in order to be able to 
capture the market. NeXT is way behing Microsoft in that sense.  Once NeXT 
has a good share of the market,  they can raise their prices.  

$500.00 for a NS development software will be a reasonable price to me. 
$250.00 for a NS non-development software.

Richard Dib
AT&T BL