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- From: olavt@ulrik.uio.no (Olav Torvund)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.advocacy
- Subject: Re: Academic Marketplace -- OS/2 2.1 as "The Scholar's Workstation"
- Message-ID: <OLAVT.93Jan4113623@ulrik.uio.no>
- Date: 4 Jan 93 10:36:23 GMT
- References: <19189@mindlink.bc.ca> <1993Jan3.205457.17495@wam.umd.edu>
- <1i7okjINNkim@neuro.usc.edu>
- Sender: news@ulrik.uio.no (Mr News)
- Organization: University of Oslo, Norway
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- In-Reply-To: merlin@neuro.usc.edu's message of 3 Jan 1993 14:16:51 -0800
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- In article <1i7okjINNkim@neuro.usc.edu> merlin@neuro.usc.edu (merlin) writes:
-
- One way for IBM to get into the academic marketplace -- and thereby
- bootstrap followon sales by graduating students familiar with OS/2
- -- would be to create an attractively priced integrated platform to
- include OS/2 2.1, TCP/IP, PMX (X Windows Server), sendmail compliant
- email and maybe a few small applets including professor's gradebooks.
- Then IBM could sell these packages to campuses as a very inexpensive
- Scholar's Workstation upgrade to what are for most of our professors
- 386SX (or better) workstations.
-
- I fully agree on that. One of the main complaints from the director of
- the IT-section here at University of Oslo, is the price of OS/2 whne
- TCP/IP etc are included. He will not recommend OS/2 before we get a
- price that is compettitive compared to DOS (+Win 3.1) + PC-NFS. His
- view is that OS/2 is better, but not to the extent that it justifies
- the price-difference. (We maight disagree on that, but it is probably
- not an untypical view by people who also are respnsible for the
- economical side). We want a site-licence for the whole package at an
- acceptable price pr user, and we do not want to pay for thousans of
- diskettes, documentations, etc.
-
- Olav Torvund
- University of Oslo
- Norway
- Olavt@jus.uio.no
-