[Am-Info] Who is this fellow?

[Erick Andrews]

On Mon, 29 Oct 2001 17:37:52 -0800, Simon Cooke wrote:

>Geoffrey wrote:
>>> >And if you think three's not significant, please remember that this is
>not
>>> >a
>>> >horizontal app.  It's also quite expensive, selling for $4,000 to $6,500
>>> >depending on user requirements.
>>>
>>> Ummm... that's not particularly expensive. I'm used to seeing $40,000
>price
>>> tags on custom business software such as yours.
>>
>> You forget Simon, John doesn't have to jack the price up to cover the
>> ludicrious Windows licenses...
>
>Who said anything about 'ludicrous windows licenses'? That's how much most
>people would expect to pay for any platform... In the past, I've seen VB
>apps that wrapped around IBM 370 code sold for $40,000. Windows not
>included.
>
>Try buying anything from Computer Associates, and then you'll see what a
>price tag really is. John's software is *way* cheap. This is not necessarily
>a bad thing. And John's not Windows has *nothing* to do with that.
>

Actually it does if you understand current marketing.

To compete against a monopoly on a different platform than MS Windows,
one has to be able to offer a product that not only competes with the 
application, but overcomes the OS monopoly as well.

And to be sure, CA doesn't have what John has, so your comparison
is moot:  apples and oranges.

-- 
Erick Andrews