With Japanese vendors backing the True Blue Unix International AT&T club almost as one, the Open Software Foundation tried to win any waverers over to its own view of the world by revealing its planned pricing for its OSF/1 alternative Unix in Tokyo. The announcement was made by Robert Morel, managing director of OSF Pacific, who said that OSF/1 for a single CPU source code licence with full redistribution rights had been set at $50,000, and $25,000 without redistribution rights. Source for each additional processor in either case is $3,000. comparison with System V.4 is not easy – AT&T uses progressive pricing according to the power of the processor; Morel insists that in all cases, OSF/1 will be cheaper. AT&T said it was likely to reduce its own charges over the next year or two. And OSF/1’s need to undercut AT&T prices has got software houses up in arms – details page 2
