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RE: optics pricing (Re: Weird GigE Media Converter Behavior)
From: "Michel Py" <michel () arneill-py sacramento ca us>
Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 19:05:23 -0700
Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: 4 port OC192 IR $1030k Is there anyone who can justify this pricing with anything else than "because we can?"
That's a heck of a good reason! Any for-profit business tries hard to position themselves where they could name their price. This pricing is consistent with the guesses/predictions that were floating at the time of the product announcement; there was some political will to have a million bucks line card (otherwise they would have priced it at $999,950 ;-). This is Rolls-Royce marketing: if it's so darn pricey it's because it's so darn good. Like Rolls-Royce cars, the ones that buy them are typically not the ones that drive them, so technical arguments tend to become irrelevant. Michel.
Current thread:
- RE: optics pricing (Re: Weird GigE Media Converter Behavior) Michel Py (Aug 27)
- RE: optics pricing (Re: Weird GigE Media Converter Behavior) Mikael Abrahamsson (Aug 27)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- RE: optics pricing (Re: Weird GigE Media Converter Behavior) Michel Py (Aug 28)
- Re: optics pricing (Re: Weird GigE Media Converter Behavior) Deepak Jain (Aug 28)
- Re: optics pricing (Re: Weird GigE Media Converter Behavior) Peter Galbavy (Aug 30)
- RE: optics pricing (Re: Weird GigE Media Converter Behavior) Mark Borchers (Aug 30)
- RE: optics pricing (Re: Weird GigE Media Converter Behavior) Simon Lyall (Aug 30)
- Re: optics pricing (Re: Weird GigE Media Converter Behavior) Matthew Palmer (Aug 30)
- RE: optics pricing (Re: Weird GigE Media Converter Behavior) Lars Erik Gullerud (Aug 30)
- Re: optics pricing (Re: Weird GigE Media Converter Behavior) Peter Galbavy (Aug 31)
- Re: optics pricing (Re: Weird GigE Media Converter Behavior) Deepak Jain (Aug 28)