Re: Apple?

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From: Nevin ":-]" Liber
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 1995 04:04

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In article <40q88m$rqr@blackice.winternet.com>, jdege@winternet.com (Jeff
Dege) wrote:

>     My next-door neighbor is VP for IS at a Fortune 500 company, and they
> will only buy Unix for the desktop.  Sure, it costs a bit more for 
> wordprocessors and spreadsheets, but they spend most of their IS budget
> on custom and semi-custom DB applications, and developing such under
> Unix is an order of magnitude less expensive than developing them on
> the glorified program loaders that Apple and Microsoft call operating
> systems.

And the "order of magnitude less expensive" statistic comes from where
exactly?  Can you or your next door neighbor cite the source?

Also, your model is that the developers are your customers, not the
users.  Not a very practical model for the consumer market.  I'd rather
have developers do a little more work up front so that the order of
magnitude more users have an easier time.
-- 
        Nevin ":-)" Liber       nevin@CS.Arizona.EDU    (520) 293-2799
                                                office: (520) 621-1815

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From: nevin@CS.Arizona.EDU (Nevin ":-]" Liber)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: Apple?
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 1995 21:04:27 -0700
Organization: University of Arizona CS Department, Tucson "It's too dang hot!" Arizona
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