[comp.sys.mac] Re^2: FLAME Concerning Apple's pricing of A/UX 2.0.

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?)

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