21 Apr
2002
21 Apr
'02
7:34 a.m.
True, perhaps, but ... see below ...
Dick
----- Original Message -----
From: "R. D. Davis" <rdd(a)rddavis.org>
To: <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Sunday, April 21, 2002 12:39 PM
Subject: Re: Micro$oft Biz'droid Lusers (was: OT email response format)
Quothe Richard Erlacher, from writings of Sun, Apr 21,
2002 at
11:41:13AM -0600:
> What it clearly says if you don't prune the
context is that I'm not alone
in
> my observation that UNIX stuff costs 10x-100x
what the comparable
DOS/Windows
Apparently it has something to do with the belief that if they sell it
to a MS-DOS/Windoze/Macintosh user, they're selling it for use by a
single user. If they sell it for use on a system running UNIX, VMS,
AOS/VS, etc., then, unless they can limit the number of users that can
use it,
That's clearly not rocket science, since that's a feature I've seen on EVERY
Unix-based EDA application I've ever used.
they make the assumption that multiple users will use
it.
Apparently some biz'droids appear to think that
only large businesses
and government agencies, which can typically afford to pay higher
prices, use multi-user operating systems; or that's how it appears
anyway. Also, perhaps some of the software companies are thinking:
"hmmm, they could afford to pay a lot more for that Sun or VAX than a
PeeCee, so, we can get more money from them for software to run on
that Sun or VAX."
Aside from all that, times have changed. Nobody with any sense develops
applications aside from what's used in communications for UNIX any more, since
nobody wants to use it who's got to learn it first.