> No other alternative than A-eon? [...] that isn't true. Before they created
> their line of PPC boards, we were looking at creating an MPC8610 board

When the bounty about the MPC8610-based board to be designed by bplan was drafted in late 2009, the Nemo board was already in development at Varisys for almost one year.

> you'd have to spend a whole $10 more for a T10XX CPU.

Current Freescale prices:

1.2 GHz P1022: 53.17 USD

vs.

1.2 GHz T1013: 31.17 USD
1.2 GHz T1023: 32.81 USD
1.2 GHz T1014: 33.56 USD
1.2 GHz T1024: 33.64 USD
1.4 GHz T1022: 49.22 USD
1.4 GHz T1042: 54.69 USD

As you can see, all T1 chips except the T1042 are cheaper than the P1022.

> they never sold anything as low cost as the Efika.

...and as low performing :-)

> WE have a far larger base of supported equipment than OS4 (outside of legacy support [...]).

Some might call PPC Macs as legacy hardware ;-)