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From: eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Free Updates ? (Was Re: Questions about HPUX 8.0, X11R4, HP policy)
Summary: less expensive than we thought, and NeXT does have the better deal
Message-ID: <1068@toaster.SFSU.EDU>
Date: 22 Dec 90 04:24:31 GMT
References: <3402@medusainformatik.uni-erlangen.de> <1990Dec19.221541.23664@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> <1990Dec20.175338.11841@agate.berkeley.edu>
Reply-To: eps@cs.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)
Organization: San Francisco State University
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In article <1990Dec20.175338.11841@agate.berkeley.edu>
	izumi@fugitive.berkeley.edu (Izumi Ohzawa) writes:
>N5516    Software Release 2.0 Upgrade  License
>
>Price for this varies from $50 - $65 for educational institutions,

UPDATE:
When we first called NeXT, they quoted us $65.  The P.O. on file
shows we actually paid $42 each.

MEA CULPA:
It wasn't fair for me to compare Apple's free 6.0.5/6.0.7 updates
with NeXT; I should have compared A/UX, whose 2.0 upgrades under
comparable terms cost us FIVE times as much as NeXT's--and that's
not including Apple's X Window System upgrade fee (NextStep, of
course, being bundled with the NeXT Software Release).

					-=EPS=-
-- 
I really don't know why we're paying Apple for X.  We don't use
it, it's not the native windowing system for *any* SFSU CS machine
that runs it, we don't split X client/server across platforms, we
have no X terminals, and no plans to acquire any.