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Subject: Re: LW student pricing?
Date: 7 Jun 1995 03:49:10 GMT
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>I think educational pricing is foolish.  I don't think it encourages
>loyalty to a certain product, I think it encourages people (both teachers
>and students) to look for the biggest freebies they can find, and that
>search becomes all-engrossing.  It teaches the price of everything,
>and the value of nothing.


John,

I guess I didn't quite express my opinion clearly and it seems as you
have taken major offence by it.  Our training site is looking for the
best possible products avaliable to help our students build commercially
viable software products.  The graduates of this course are not looking
for a free meals,they are building companies that will develop and
deliver world class software.  What this means to them is that upon
graduation they will own a company and a product.  But wait, we are
licencing educational software most of the time that means the products
cannot be used for commercial practices.  This mean they will have to buy
the tools they used to build their product so it can be legally marketed.


Unfortunately we are run through government.  This isn't a private school
that can charge huge quantities of cash for enrollment.  The system may
suck but that's the way it is.  So for us, it comes down to dollars and
sense.  What makes the most fiscal sense as well, what is financially
viable for these students upon graduation?

No matter what, we will have a copy or two of lightwave.  We already have
copies of 3DSTUDIO and TRUESPACE.  Were not trying to be biased about
products.  We want to show a good range of products, evaluate their
features and let these entrepreneurs evaluate them for their strengths,
weaknesses, price points, etc...But we still need to give 300 students a
good grounding in 3D modelling, rendering and animation.  That means we
need a site licence for 1 product.  Again that means finances.  The
school can't afford 30,000 for a site on any one product, so we will have
to go with the best product available in our price range.

As a side benefit for the companies involved, 300 students per year will
train a majority of their time on 1 system.  The students who need
software with certain functionality will buy that software when they
graduate because they know how to use it.  That makes it profitable for
them.   This is a fact from the graduates already in business from our
program.  What they know best, they buy.

I sincerely hope that you do not have a poor view of educational
institutions.  We are doing the best job we can to provide excellence in
education while living under the roof of Government.

If you would like to talk further, give me a call or send me personal
email.  Thanks,