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- From: rmilner@zia.aoc.nrao.edu (Ruth Milner)
- Subject: Re: SPARCClassic
- Message-ID: <1992Nov12.225259.7662@zia.aoc.nrao.edu>
- Reply-To: rmilner@zia.aoc.nrao.edu (Ruth Milner)
- Organization: National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Socorro NM
- References: <1992Nov11.202440.6147@zia.aoc.nrao.edu> <kzin.721535677@cc.gatech.edu>
- Date: Thu, 12 Nov 92 22:52:59 GMT
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- In article <kzin.721535677@cc.gatech.edu> kzin@terminus.gatech.edu (John Rudd) writes:
- >rmilner@zia.aoc.nrao.edu (Ruth Milner) writes:
- >
- >>Both prices are *non-discountable*.
- >
- >This is Wrong. There are educational discounts available.
- >For example, the base SparcClassic system that costs $4295 will
- >cost $3356 with eduational discount.
-
- I still haven't heard this from my local Sun people, but several people have
- posted it here, so I'll go along with it :-).
-
- From the sound of it, pricing was settled at literally the last minute. My
- sales rep told me Tuesday she didn't get it until 7:30 that morning, in email
- (and she had checked at 6:30). At the Albuquerque presentation they said
- nothing (even afterwards) about discounts being available on the Classic.
- Someone else posted here that they were told by their rep that discounts on
- the LX weren't "decided" on yet at announcement time, whereas here we were
- told that the standard discounts applied.
-
- So all things considered, it looks like Sun did a poor job getting good
- information out to all of their offices, resulting in a lot of confusion ...
- --
- Ruth Milner NRAO/VLA Socorro NM
- Computing Division Head rmilner@zia.aoc.nrao.edu
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