Outrageous prices real?

["Lou Ziegler" <louziegler@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

While searching the Net, came across following at
http://www.midrangeserver.com/mso/mso012902-story03.html

>Other enhancements added to Create!form 2.3 include
support
>for creating bar codes in forms. Licenses for Create!form
start at
>$10,000, which includes the Create!form design tool, the
>Create!stream engine, which converts the print spool data
into
>the required format, and a license to print documents. The
>Create!email and Create!fax modules cost $5,000 each,
while the
>Create!archive module, which allows users to post
documents to
>a Web site, runs $10,000.

Question:
Are all packages this expensive?
Who buys this? And why?

We are a small shop.
We want to generate and distribute reports, economically.

Lou

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