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- Newsgroups: comp.unix.sys5.r4
- Path: sparky!uunet!psinntp!fasttech!zeke
- From: zeke@fasttech.com (Bohdan Tashchuk)
- Subject: Re: What is lacking in UNIX? (Re: UNIVEL MUST BE KIDDING!!!!!)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.100028.26428@fasttech.com>
- Organization: Fast Technology
- References: <1992Dec19.010713.23959@isc-br.isc-br.com>
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 10:00:28 GMT
- Lines: 24
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- In <1992Dec19.010713.23959@isc-br.isc-br.com> ricks@odin.isc-br.com (Rick Schaeffer) writes:
-
- >Amen, brother! I'm **real** biased toward Unix...but I just cannot
- >believe that USL/Univel don't seem to understand the economics of volume!
- >They could sell many thousands of copies at $150 and take over the
- >home PC market.
-
- You can give Unix away for free and you won't penetrate the home PC market
- until you have
-
- a better dos than dos
- a better Windows than Windows
-
- Ie, you need compatibility with existing applications, or new applications
- that are just as good and don't cost any more per copy. The home PC market
- isn't going to use Unix unless it runs sofware like Excel and Word for Windows
- and Managing Your Money and Prodigy and the hundreds of other apps that people
- have accumulated over the years.
-
- This is OBVIOUS, OBVIOUS, OBVIOUS. And has been repeated over and over on
- the net. And yet people persist in thinking that all you need to do is lower
- Unix's price and the world will beat a path to its door.
-
- Lowering the price is necessary but not sufficient.
-