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From: bzs@bu-cs.BU.EDU (Barry Shein)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: Help us defend against VMS!
Message-ID: <20587@bu-cs.BU.EDU>
Date: 12 Mar 88 21:29:51 GMT
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In-reply-to: ward@cfa.harvard.EDU's message of 10 Mar 88 18:51:27 GMT



Well Steve, the prices you are getting Vaxes for certainly must be
coloring your opinions a little. I suppose if I could get a VS2000
with one-year on-site for $3K I might think a little differently also.

As it stands I believe the last thing DEC ever offered around here was
5% or some such if we promised to do volume business, or maybe it was
5% but a little more if we did volume, I forget, I guess the laughter
was too loud in the room.

Things like that can really change one's view of what competitive
price performance really means, no? I think we're more typical and
Harvard has some sort of sweetheart deal (hey, good for them) that
can't really be factored into the rest of our decisions.

	-Barry Shein, Boston University