Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Hi Paul, > you wrote: > >At the sametime I'm thinking of BEOS. They have a beautiful product but > >their pricing is keeping the OS out of the hands of the people that could > >make it a player. I may be wrong but I don't think BEOS will ever be a > >contender simply because the owner is so intent in making money from day > >one. > > > Actually, if I recall correctly, their pricing is relatively low. Correct > me if I'm wrong, but I recall having received an email from them, when > their Intel version began shipping. The price I believe I saw then was > about $40 - $60. Have they raised their prices since? > I find BeOS pricing quite accepatble, they are selling a bundle of the operating system and a book called BeBible for $80. OS without the book is $70. I checked pricing in Finland and noticed that BeOs is priced a little below Windows 9x and considerably below Windows NT/2000. So I'd say that Be is probably not making so much money out of their OS, just trying to get their expences covered. Yours, Jussi -- Jussi Hagman CS in �bo Akademi University Studentbyn 4 D 33 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 20540 �bo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Finland
