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- From: eggert@twinsun.com (Paul Eggert)
- Subject: Re: Solaris 2 vs Windows NT: Sun is losing the desktop on price
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- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 03:31:17 GMT
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- In <1993Jan22.143534.18578@ra.msstate.edu> Frank Peters writes:
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- The subject line lead me to the idea that we were basically discussing
- SunOS on PCs. Under that restriction my statement above is completely
- accurate.
-
- Huh? Here is that statement again.
- In <1993Jan21.235025.6322@ra.msstate.edu> Peters writes:
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- In article <1993Jan21.114542.29767@fulcrum.oz.au> paulr@fulcrum.oz.au
- (Paul Rosham) says:
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- dank@cco.caltech.edu (Daniel R. Kegel) writes:
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- whereas Solaris 2 is priced at $1000 or so.
-
- The Solaris 2.1 CD-ROM for SPARCstations in AUSTRALIA is
- AUD$100. That's about USD$67 at today's exchange rate (I don't
- know what the US list is). With OpenWindows for $0.00. Where
- do you get the $1000 from?
-
- That AUD$100 gets you a copy of the distribution media. It doesn't buy
- you the legal right to actually install it on any machines. For that
- you need to buy a Right To Use License (RTU for short) for each
- system. Which costs several hundreds of dollars (US$600 leaps to mind
- but that is probably for 4.1.3).
-
- Rosham was clearly talking about AUD$100 for a _Sparcstation_ CD-ROM.
- So if that statement about ``several hundreds of dollars'' was meant to
- refer only to PCs, then it was made in a very misleading context.
-
- Besides, that statement is inaccurate even if it is meant to refer only to PCs,
- since the PC pricing policies haven't been set yet.
-