jamie wrote:300$ Canadian doesnt cut it.
I think 99$ is the right price
( and for OEM's 30 to 40$ a machine)
Based on XP Pro ( Home is just a nutered Pro)
WinServer 2003 Standard should be 199
and above this charge what you want ( datacenter etc)
I know I would like it to be lower but let's be serious for a second. Small shareware applications like Trillian, Getright, Winzip are in the $25-40 range. Are you saying that making an operating system with all the functionality it has can be considered
equivalent to 4-5 of these applications?
I think not. Lets face it an OS gives you far greater functionality than any other common app, and by all accounts making an OS is far more difficult (specifically referring to the hardware controlling part) than developing an application that uses the OS'
APIs.
So no, the price is not high if you consider the other prices to be ok.
