IMHO-
If Apple wishes to dominate the marketplace they could:
(1) create a WO deployment only pkg for LINUX
(2) exchange WO advertising for 'free' deployment licenses to
www providers- thus allowing individuals/small bus. ability to deploy WO
(3) establish WO as THE XML platform.
(4) pay as much as you can model
An individual and small business should not be asked to cough up more than
$1K-
for a small deployment.
Large businesses are sheep. Create momentum and they will come.
Bijan Nowroozi
PageNet
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Jeroen Clarysse wrote:
> I think that apple isn't interested in small developers. WO is simply
> targeted at big projects : $100.000 or more. Then, indeed, the software
> cost is acceptable. But WO pricing is not 'splittable' over multiple small
> projects since tpm is usuallly the same for all sizes.
>
> does apple remember how their sales went down as their target platform
> price went up ? A year ago, macintosh machines were described as "for high
> end video graphics only"
>
> Only when they released the iMac, their user base growed.
>
> now releasing a server OS does NOT mean there is only a small user base :
> apple does not realize how many servers it could install if they made it
> cheaper.
>
> hey apple : how about releasing iWebObjects at $500, unlimited tpm, and,
> next to the fastest selling home-computer, have the fastest selling server
> *ever* ?
>
> jeroen
