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One is a multi billion dollar company with products milking its customers. The other one is LispWorks, a small company in the UK serving a small market. Food
by lispm 12y ago
One is a multi billion dollar company with products milking its customers.
The other one is LispWorks, a small company in the UK serving a small market.
Food for thought:
http://www.azulsystems.com/products/zing/whatisit http://www.azulsystems.com/products/zing/whatisit
A JVM, yearly (!) cost for a single server: $8000.
- gaze 12y agoYeah but if you're a company the price of something is completely different. Maybe that server needs really excellent realtime performance for some really specific business need (finance?) I just don't understand how 500 bucks is a hobbyist price for a piece of software.
- lispm 12y agoIt seems that for this particular piece of software, there is no cheaper way to produce it. It's a compromise of pricing a product to keep it attractive and being able to do sustained business from the UK, where a team of developers is more expensive that in some other parts of the world. $500 is affordable for a lot of people. An iPhone 6 costs more. A vintage Symbolics Lisp Machine just was sold for $5150, more than ten times compared to a hobbyist LispWorks license.