Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cornell!uw-beaver!rice!sun-spots-request From: sytek!syteka.ARPA!sridhar@hplabs.hp.com (Sridhar Acharya) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun Subject: Graphics packages...High Prices Message-ID: <727@brazos.Rice.edu> Date: 3 Aug 89 18:08:57 GMT Sender: root@rice.edu Organization: Sun-Spots Lines: 28 Keywords: Software Approved: Sun-Spots@rice.edu X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 8, Issue 92, message 9 of 18 In v8n75 Chuck Musciano writes: >I have a general rule that software above the $10,000/seat price is simply >too expensive. Period. I have looked at four packages that fall into >this range: Interleaf ($12,500), SES/Workbench ($30-50,000!), >DataViews($20,000), and a software metrics package whose name escapes me ($25,000) >I was able to write tools which mimicked the basic functionality >of Dataviews in about one week. We are looking at Dataviews for providing a graphic interface to our product on Suns, but as mentioned it's real expensive. Also the cost of our product will also go up by (2-3k) as you have to pay for licencing it on the product. We need the capabilities like real time display of various graphs, graphics editor etc. supported by Dataviews. I am wondering if there are similar packages available for lesser price or if we wan't do do it ourself are there any PD packages which we can take help from. Thanks a bunch for any pointers. ******************************************************************** Sridhar Acharya Software Engineer. Hughes Lan Systems. UUCP ..sun!sytek!sridhar Internet: sridhar@sytek.hls.hac.com ********************************************************************