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From: jmunkki@hila.hut.fi (Juri Munkki)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: NeXT international plans?
Message-ID: <1990Oct3.211448.15738@santra.uucp>
Date: 3 Oct 90 21:14:48 GMT
References: <1990Sep27.200513.20457@Neon.Stanford.EDU> <49@pubit.sublink.ORG>
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In article <49@pubit.sublink.ORG> root@pubit.sublink.ORG (Arrigo Benedetti) writes:
>philip@pescadero.Stanford.EDU (Philip Machanick) writes:
>
>>I occasionally write for Computers in Africa. I wonder if anyone from NeXT
>>would like to discuss international marketing plans ...
>
>I'd like to join this discussion, too. I'm concerned in particular with
>distribution in Europe. Last week I was asked to pay "something beetwen
>$30000 and $40000" for the old Cube + Laser Printer (I'm not joking).
>I think that NeXT wouldn't be happy to know that a VAR is reselling their
>machines with such a price increase. So I'd like to discuss this matter with
>some international sales people at NeXT.

Then again, I got some material from the U.K. and their projected price
for the NeXTStation is only 3255 pounds. I'm trying to convince my boss
that we should buy at least one NeXTStation and he gave me the permission
to find out what the educational price would be, if we got it from the UK
distributor. Their material seemed to indicate that educational
discount NeXTs _are_ directly available from NeXT inc., but I guess they
meant institutions that have signed a contract with NeXT.

(If you are wondering why I'm getting a NeXT after that Emacs posting,
please note that I'm not buying it with my own money. One reason for
the anti-Emacs posting was that I wanted to hear about alternatives and
make more people aware that not everyone is happy with Emacs. I'm still
one of the strongest NeXT supporters at our university.)

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