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exvaxman · 03-11-2007, 04:28 PM

I was astonished at some of the prices. Very underpowered PCs were selling for $5K as simple protocol converters. In the environment I came from I had to justify a 6% return on investment - same as putting the cash in the bank. At this p[lace - and many medical equipment places - they were lookng at a 900% ROI minimum to put out a new product. One of the high idiocies was a java front end to a datatbase that they thought they could sell for $500K each. A freeware version was already out there.....

03-11-2007, 04:28 PM	#16
exvaxman Connoisseur Posts: 66 Karma: 38 Join Date: Mar 2006	having once worked for a medical equipment mfgr I was astonished at some of the prices. Very underpowered PCs were selling for $5K as simple protocol converters. In the environment I came from I had to justify a 6% return on investment - same as putting the cash in the bank. At this p[lace - and many medical equipment places - they were lookng at a 900% ROI minimum to put out a new product. One of the high idiocies was a java front end to a datatbase that they thought they could sell for $500K each. A freeware version was already out there.....