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From: wjw@eba.eb.ele.tue.nl (Willem Jan Withagen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: Purchasing Apollo Software (was Re: purchasing the HP/Apollo 9000 series 400 workstations)
Keywords: discounts
Message-ID: <643@eba.eb.ele.tue.nl>
Date: 13 Sep 90 13:07:42 GMT
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In article <1813@tuvie> mike@tuvie.UUCP (Inst.f.Techn.Informatik) writes:
>In article <5918@uceng.UC.EDU> juber@uceng.UC.EDU (james uber) writes:
>>
>>3. HP/Apollo offers all its compilers (all proprietary software?) to 
>>Universities at a 90% discount.  I mention this to you because my sales rep
>>did not know about it.
>
>Is this also true for non-US sites? We are once again having problems with our 
>sales rep who only wants to give us a 75% discount :-(.
>

(NOTE: This holds only if it's for educational purposes)

Here in Holland your milage may vary. 
On compilers we get 90%, making it almost cheaper to buy new ones 
instead of getting a support contract.
Then there's things like DSEE, DPCI, and other Apollo stuff. Depending
on the desire to get this type of software on a University, we get
different amounts of discount (75%,50%,38%). 
And buying things like NFS which is really foreign software just gets 
the regular discount (38%).

(NOTE2: Don't take me for your local sales rep, I quote from memory.
	And that's very volatile since it collided with some stones yesterdag,
	Doing 35 km/hour, while racing on my bike, I got caught in someone
	else his wheel. So now I'm working from home)

Willem Jan
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