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- From: chard@borland.com (Richard Nelson)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
- Subject: Re: A bit about BP7
- Message-ID: <1992Nov13.190343.2644@borland.com>
- Date: 13 Nov 92 19:03:43 GMT
- References: <1992Nov9.133118.12708@ncsu.edu> <1992Nov11.012258.27466@borland.com> <1992Nov12.123026.2642@rtf.bt.co.uk>
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- Organization: Borland International
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- Originator: chard@genghis.borland.com
-
- >If TP Pro is being superseded by BP7 why does it cost 99 pounds to
- >upgrade to BP7 from TP Pro *or* 99 pounds to upgrade from just plain TP?
- >Shouldn't it cost less to upgrade from the professional version? More to
- >the point I was told it costs 99 pounds to upgrade from any of TP,TP Pro
- >or TPW. Since I have both TPW and TP Pro I asked what the upgrade price
- >would then be. I was still told 99 pounds!!!!
-
- Well, I don't set prices, but it strikes me that either way, it's a
- heck of a good deal. I won't quibble over whether people who own pro
- versions should pay less to upgrade than those who don't. Just ask
- yourself, is it worth 99 pounds?
-
- One motivation behind having a single upgrade price, I believe, is
- that there has been a significant amount of confusion in the past when
- we've offered more complicated upgrade offers. I know that the last
- C++ upgrade had 5 or 6 different options, depending on what you were
- upgrading from and to. This is really simple, and I think it's a
- great bargain, no matter what you're upgrading from.
-
- >I assume BP7 is nothing more than an amalgamation of TP Pro and TPW with
- >bug fixes and a few new goodies thrown in so why the large upgrade price?
-
- That assumption is largely wrong. BP7 is a significant upgrade to
- both the DOS and Windows versions, bundled in a single box, with new
- features that neither previous product included, most notably the
- ability to produce protected-mode applications. Plus it includes the
- full source code for the run-time library and the application
- frameworks. It's a great deal.
- --
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- Richard Nelson, Borland Int'l | chard@borland.com | Go Bears! Grrr-rah!
- Had this been Borland's opinion, I would have written it in a manual.
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