[comp.misc] looking for information on British High-End Computer Market

nick@aimed.UUCP (Nick Pemberton) (03/24/89)

Forgive me if this is the wrong newsgroup; I could think of no others.

My company is in the position of selling our Laboratory software in
britain, through a third party. What I am interested in finding out
about is the general cost of computing in Britain, on high end machines.

The lab system typically requires a computer with 100 or more ports,
and about 1 Gig on line disk space. In our installation it is running
on a HoneyWell DPS 6.

My problem is that the prices we were discussing with the folks in
Britain were about a quarter that of the north american price (we've
been told that the system would sell for $50,000 in britain, were as
it sells for well over $200,000 here).

I would welcome any thoughts on the british market, particularly from
those seeing it first hand.

Thanks,

Nick
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