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From: karl@sugar.uu.net (Karl Lehenbauer)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.microport
Subject: Giant Price Hikes for System V Release 4
Message-ID: <3001@sugar.uu.net>
Date: 18 Nov 88 01:03:07 GMT
Organization: Sugar Land Unix - Houston, TX
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...spoke with a salesperson at Bell Technologies yesterday and was told
that System V/4 is going to cost about $1300 and there isn't likely to
be an upgrade for V/3 people.  This person claimed that AT&T had super 
jacked-up the rates and similar price hikes will occur from all other vendors.

This is really unfortunate, if true.  It's bad for Unix.  The price is 
going in the wrong direction, know what I mean?  I don't suppose OSF is 
going to be much help, pity GNU's restrictions prevent any sort of 
value-added resale.

Anyone want to work on a PD Unix clone?  (2/3 :-)
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