Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!hsi!robind From: robind@code3.com (Robin Dunn) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Subject: Re: Borland C++ Message-ID: <1642@hsi.hsi.com> Date: 19 Feb 91 17:41:29 GMT References: <6843@mace.cc.purdue.edu> <540@shuksan.UUCP> Sender: news@hsi.hsi.com Organization: 3M Health Information Systems Lines: 27 Nntp-Posting-Host: code3.code3.com In article <540@shuksan.UUCP> mikey@shuksan.UUCP (Mike Fields) writes: > >I just received the upgrade notice in the mail. They list the upgrade >price from Turbo C pro or Turbo C++ pro as $99. My complaint is >that why did I just pay $125 in Sept. to upgrade from 2.0 to ` >C++ and now it is the same price to upgrade as if I still just had >my Turbo C 2.0?? I called Borland and was told that if my version >had been purchased in the last 60 days, the upgrade would be free. >I really appreciate paying $125 in Sept, getting the 1.01 upgrade >which fixed the initial release in November 90 and now being told that >I could have saved my $125 by waiting 6 months. Thanks a lot folks!! > (No flames please, this is just an observation...) You have had the use of a good C++ compiler for the last six months, isn't that worth the $125? If not, then perhaps you shouldn't have gotten it at all! Or would you have perferred that Borland not release anything until they were ready to release this version? What about until the next? -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Robin P. Dunn ...!uunet!code3!robind 3M Health Information Systems robind@code3.com Code3 Product Development (801) 265-4820