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- From: cbrooks@afit.af.mil (Christopher L Brooks)
- Subject: Re: C++ develpment environments
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.130845.12737@afit.af.mil>
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- Organization: Air Force Institute of Technology
- References: <1993Jan18.120132.26301@ucc.su.OZ.AU> <1993Jan18.170013.15428@spectrum.xerox.com> <1jhemvINN15h@armory.centerline.com> <1993Jan19.212232.11431@netcom.com>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 13:08:45 GMT
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- erc@netcom.com (Eric Smith) writes:
-
- >In article <1jhemvINN15h@armory.centerline.com> rose@centerline.com (Bob Rose) writes:
- >>Performance and scalability have been targeted extensively for our
- >>new release of ObjectCenter (2.0) due out this quarter. I think you'll
- >>find it much better!
-
- >I heard a rumor that ObjectCenter costs $4000 per copy. Is this true?
- >Why on earth would anyone charge $4000 for a software product? Don't
- >you want to make it popular? How can you get all the bugs out if you
- >don't have zillions of users sending in bug reports? And how can you
- >get zillions of users if you charge that much?
-
- The primary reason prices are so high is the very fact that they will
- never have a zillion users for such a high-end, limited market product.
- This isn't Microsoft Access - even if they charge $99 they wouldn't
- sell 500 thousand copies in the first month. In the high-end
- development world, $4000 isn't really considered "expensive".
-
- --Chris Brooks
- --cbrooks@afit.af.mil
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