I've wondered about that and wondered how much of that is due to a total sale adding up to much more than $10K?
And of course that's not a hard rule, there can be software priced in the middle where a less strenuous effort on the part of the corporate buyer gets the job done on his side (and many think that a major reason for corporate software piracy is not that the corporation can't afford it, but that it's so hard to get a purchase order through that borrowing a disk from someone across the hall is by far the path of least resistance).
And maybe this help explains some major failures, like Centerline's Code and ObjectCenter (interpretive environments (with interpreters, but you often just load compiled code on the fly) for C and C++ that are as close to a Lisp Machine as you could get for those languages).
Also, the $1,000 limit is undoubtedly too low, it's whatever your corporation allows you to spend without too much effort (e.g. CxO signoff). A few thousand dollars are OK, e.g. that's how PCs slipped into a lot of companies, on departmental but not corporate budgets. (Heck, that's how a few Z-80 CP/M machines slipped into LMI when we had at most 3 CADRs operational at a time and a strong bias against doing anything outside of a Lisp Machine.)
And of course that's not a hard rule, there can be software priced in the middle where a less strenuous effort on the part of the corporate buyer gets the job done on his side (and many think that a major reason for corporate software piracy is not that the corporation can't afford it, but that it's so hard to get a purchase order through that borrowing a disk from someone across the hall is by far the path of least resistance).
And maybe this help explains some major failures, like Centerline's Code and ObjectCenter (interpretive environments (with interpreters, but you often just load compiled code on the fly) for C and C++ that are as close to a Lisp Machine as you could get for those languages).
Also, the $1,000 limit is undoubtedly too low, it's whatever your corporation allows you to spend without too much effort (e.g. CxO signoff). A few thousand dollars are OK, e.g. that's how PCs slipped into a lot of companies, on departmental but not corporate budgets. (Heck, that's how a few Z-80 CP/M machines slipped into LMI when we had at most 3 CADRs operational at a time and a strong bias against doing anything outside of a Lisp Machine.)