Came across of interesting post on pricing of Wind products. Don't know how to make a link to a Usenet post. Have to copy paste the whole post. Responce to this post is also worth looking at. I will paste it in my next post.
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Subject:
vxWorks Pricing!!!!!
Date:
Wed, 19 Nov 1997 14:03:17 GMT
From:
blair@xvn.ds.boeing.com (Rick Blair)
Organization:
The Boeing Company
Newsgroups:
comp.os.vxworks
Hi all,
I'm surprised that no one else has started a tread about the
cost of vxWorks/tornado. I have been a vxWorks developer for almost 8 years now. I am, howver, starting to look for less expensive alternatives.
Don't get me wrong, I love vxWorks! I even Like tornado! I just cannot justify the cost anymore!! Especially things like 11K$ for Java!!! and thats on top of the 19K or so for tornado!! I am also a low volume kind of developer. None of my projects will ever amount to more than 5 or 10 items installed, so a price of $1000 for a runtime license puts off many of my potential users. Plus a different development license for PPC and 68K? Now I'm at 40K? Thats a real hard sell to my management when they see a full up visual c++ for about 1/10 of that!
I'm starting this thread not to gripe (ok, maybe a little), but I see
a real threat to vxworks coming from windows CE2! I do not want to use a microsoft product, but may be forced to based on price! The price of the hardware, price of the os, price of the runtime license, and price of developement environment!!! I'm sure I will hear, "You get what you pay for", but if windows CE will do the job at 1/10 the cost, then I will be forced to use it. Remember how the PC killed the Mac in sales? Where is apple now? It is a better platform, just way too expensive!
Make vxWorks a comodity! Lower the prices, fix the licensing, make it where I can afford to use it!! Please Help ME!!
Thanks for listening
Rick
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