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- From: dbernard@clesun.Central.Sun.COM (Dave Bernard)
- Newsgroups: misc.invest
- Subject: Re: Novell to buy USL
- Date: 24 Dec 1992 12:52:10 GMT
- Organization: Sun Microsystems
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- -Larry Watanabe watanabe@cs.uiuc.edua writes:
-
-
- >The problem is not the price of UNIX software -- it is the limited
- >market for UNIX software. If there was a much larger market
- >for it, it could be made much cheaper. I'm sure the software
- >developers would be happy to charge 1/100 the price per
- >copy, if they could sell 1,000,000 times as many copies.
-
- Of course, a way to generate volume is to reduce price. Problem is,
- the UNIX ISV market is still living in the "value pricing" days, when
- the larger and more powerful the (mainframe, mini,) system, the higher
- the price of software. UNIX systems have tumbled in price, but software
- prices have not followed suit accordingly. This is putting a crimp on
- the expansion of the UNIX market, where buyers don't give a hoot for the
- underlying OS, but are just buying business (read, software) solutions.
-
- Dave
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