[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> On Friday 05 January 2001 01:36, Mark Sires wrote:
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> > the price reflects it! Anybody who tells you quality doesn't cost is full
> > of baloney - if it didn't a Mercedes would be cheaper than a Yugo.
> > Mark
>
Quality does cost effort, but what a consumer pays for that effort is
only sometimes related to the price.
>
> No, price is no guarantee for quality, nor does a cheap or free system imply
> lack of quality.
>
Back to the car example, Consumer Reports is full of tests where
sometimes high price = high quality and sometimes it doesn't. Some of
the most unreliable manufactured goods happen to have very high prices.
I have found this to be the case in computer systems as well. Whenever
the market is small, even the attempt to form a viable business model
creates extremely high prices for just about anything from a quick
prototype done in access by one recent college grad to a multi-year
software engineering process. I have seen both types of systems
attempted to be sold to us with a multi-million dollar price tag and no
relationship to quality. That is not to say that there are not quality
products out there and that some of them don't cost a lot of money, but
there is also a lot of high priced snake oil. Caveat Emptor, as they
used to say.
