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- From: pavlov@niktow.canisius.edu (Greg Pavlov)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
- Subject: Re: DEC's new policy on upgrades
- Message-ID: <1182@niktow.canisius.edu>
- Date: 29 Jul 92 01:39:39 GMT
- References: <1992Jul27.203808.7270@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu>
- Organization: Canisius College, Buffalo NY. 14208
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- In article <1992Jul27.203808.7270@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu>, cks@hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu (Chris Siebenmann) writes:
- >
- > According to two of our local salespeople, DEC will no longer sell
- > incremental upgrades to people without DEC's overpriced software
- > service agreement[*]; ....
- > ..... If this is indeed the policy, I
- > will do my utmost to dissuade people from buying DEC gear, because
- > their support has just dropped from 'non-existent' to 'hostile' (it
- > has already killed one potential sale).
- >
- > [*: Support is on the order of $300+ a month; DEC releases less than
- > one usable new version a year, on average, and the full kit cost
- > is $2,000 or so -- incrememental kits are cheaper.]
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- If you want to drop DEC over $3600 per year then there wasn't much to keep
- you there anyway.
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- It's amazing how many people want everyone else to work for nothing.....
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- greg pavlov
- pavlov@fstrf.org
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