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From: mike@UC780.UMD.EDU (Mike Santangelo)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: HP 700 series multi-user performance?
Message-ID: <1991Apr30.203118.3323@socrates.umd.edu>
Date: 30 Apr 91 20:31:18 GMT
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In article <NENAAS.91Apr30101122@ulrik.uio.no>, nenaas@ulrik.uio.no (Nils-Eivind Naas) writes:
>In article <1991Apr27.163711.6974@sunee.waterloo.edu> gordon@maxwell.waterloo.edu (Gordon R. Strachan) writes:
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>   From: gordon@maxwell.waterloo.edu (Gordon R. Strachan)
>   Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
>   Date: 27 Apr 91 16:37:11 GMT
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>   In article <48580023@hpcupt3.cup.hp.com> coulter@hpcupt3.cup.hp.com (Michael A. Coulter) writes:
>   >
>   >I think the 700's only come with 8-user licenses.
>   >
>   >Not an official HP statement, just my recollection.
>   >
>
>   This is what I was told but I really don't understand why.  This is a pretty
>   serious problem for us in buying this machine.  I really do need at least
>   a sixteen user license.  For the life of me I can't understand why larger
>   licenses are available for the 300's than are for the 700's.  Hopefully
>   someone at HP is listening and will soon rectify this over sight.
>
>   >-- Michael Coulter	coulter@hpclisp.cup.hp.com
>
>
>   Gordon
>
>I was offered, and ordered, a multi-user extension to the 2-user licence
>on a 720. The HP part number is 82359A, and is stated to be a 32-user licence.
>My salesman may have made a typing error,however; I distinctly remember him
>mentioning a 16-user licence in our first conversation.
>
>I will not know for certain until delivery is made some time in July, but all
>the evidence points to the availability of at least 16-user licences.
>
>Nils-Eivind Naas, ISAF,Oslo   nen@isaf.no   or nenaas@ulrik.uio.no

I have the HP Apollo 9000 Series 700 U.S. Price Guide in front of
me.  Page 52:

  Prod # B2353A: HP-UX 8.05 Run-Time Environment, 32-user.   $1,895.00 (list)
           -AAH: DDS distribution                             $ 395.00
           -AAU: CD-ROM certificate                              n/a

Academic Computing discounts for software are up to 90% btw.
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