On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 12:53:50PM +0800, John Summerfield wrote: > On Mon, 2 Dec 2002 12:42, you wrote: > > $13K entry point (not 20K) for their own system with software loan amounts > > to an impediment that forecloses their effort. I am aware of one-man > > shops taking IBM up on the offering, so Mr. Szumovski's post to the > > contrary is factually incorrect.
The difference between $13K and $20K for this purpose is insignificant; it's still a huge sum of money for someone who's not planning to make lots of money from the product. Don't forget, also, that the prospective developer needs to write a business plan that the folks at IBM will approve; I have no idea how tough the approval process is. (I'm not in a position to try, either; even if I could swing the $13K, I don't have a product in mind that IBM would want to support.) > Some may find $US13 000 affordable. For me, it's sometthing to dream about. Indeed. I'm probably pretty rare in that $1500 for a MCA P/390 was something I could get without stretching too far. An order of magnitude above that is just plain out of the question.
