cory@three.MV.COM (Cory Kempf) (06/07/90)
The pricing of A/UX is in line with what it would cost to buy a unix for a DOS box... unfortunately, the pricing of the hardware tends to make A/UX non-competitive with other unix systems. On top of paying for A/UX, you must also pay for MacOS... About the only people who will ever use A/UX are people like me, who are concerned about security; people who need unix, and happen to have a spare mac laying around, or people who see A/UX as an intermediate step to porting Mac Applications from MacOS to Unix and X windows. It seems that this is also how Apple is positioning the product: high price, X not included, support is expensive, etc. A very nice vehical to move Mac software into the Unix Market. If Apple wanted A/UX to be considered as a viable unix system, they really should (at the VERY LEAST) provide X/Motif as part of the system, and cut the price of the system as well (after all, people who are using A/UX are not using MacOS -- Why should they have to pay for it?) +C -- Cory Kempf I do speak for the company (sometimes). Three Letter Company 603 883 2474 email: cory@three.mv.com, harvard!zinn!three!cory