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From: news1@texbell.swbt.com (Greg Hackney)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ncr
Subject: Re: Tower Sys V.3 upgrade
Message-ID: <4383@texbell.swbt.com>
Date: 16 Jul 90 14:17:50 GMT
References: <4382@texbell.sbc.com>
Reply-To: news1@tnessd.UUCP (Greg Hackney)
Organization: texbell gateway, dallas
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In article <4382@texbell.sbc.com> jimh%aubsch@mother.bates.edu writes:

>NCR may consider it a "deal" to reduce the license fee for current
>customers, but I consider it a rip-off.  As far as I am concerned, the
>cost should be the same $250 media charge as previous upgrades.

With a software service contract, the 'point issue' upgrades have
only been the cost of the media. This was a new release, and my machine
hadn't been under hardware or software maintenance agreements.

For the price mentioned, I got the latest operating system, the compiler,
man pages, accounting, troff, everything (not bundled). Also I got a
full set of paper man pages in nice maroon hard binders with gold trim.

In a similar situatuion, with my 3B2-310, a much smaller machine, AT&T
charged me $600 to upgrade to S5R3. It contained only some basic stuff,
like the operating system, & lp spooler. No compiler, accounting, etc.
Also, they only sent loose updates to the man pages, not a full set of
documentation.

I thought NCR's 'deal' was wonderful in comparison.
--
Greg