Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!think.com!mintaka!ai-lab!opal!wg From: wg@opal.cs.tu-berlin.de (Wolfgang Grieskamp) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: NeXT - Sammelbestellung fuer Studenten & Hochschulangehoerige Message-ID: <3380@opal.cs.tu-berlin.de> Date: 17 May 91 18:51:31 GMT References: <336:@domina.cs.tu-berlin.de> Sender: news@opal.cs.tu-berlin.de Reply-To: wg@opal.cs.tu-berlin.de Followup-To: comp.sys.next Organization: Technical University of Berlin Lines: 19 Nntp-Posting-Host: troll doko@opal.cs.tu-berlin.de (Matthias Klose) writes: > In Germany there is no educational discout >at all, so the smallest mono version costs about $6800 (not very >interesting for american citizens). Apple pushed a lot of advertisment $$$s into the german market, but finally (last year) gave educational discounts ... however, the university scene which might take advantage of this campaign will not carry the message to the industry as expected (I suspect), since the Mac architecture is declared to be already old fashioned. I once thought, Steven Jobbs left Apple not at least since he did not agree with their marketing politics. Is this a rumour? -- Wolfgang Grieskamp wg@opal.cs.tu-berlin.de tub!tubopal!wg wg%opal@DB0TUI11.BITNET