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From: gillies@p.cs.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: MACH, magneto-optical drives, MAPLE
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Date: 14 Feb 89 19:30:00 GMT
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/* Written  Feb 13, 1989 by ecs140w049@deneb.ucdavis.edu in comp.sys.mac */
> Check with you Bookstore to see if they have signed a Mathematica contract.
> In the University agrees to bundle a copy of Mathematica with EVERY Mac II 
> sold, they can buy them at $150 a piece!  At that price, no science /  
> engineering student should be without a copy!

Here is some amusing information ---

1.  Wolfram Research, Inc, developers of mathematica, would have
preferred to stike a deal with Apple to bundle mathematica with every
machine.  When it is bundled with every machine, Wolfram charges about
an order of magnitude less for the software.  They have struck
deals with Sun, Next, and other companies.

2.  When the software is discounted for university machines, Wolframs
charges $X for EVERY MACHINE SOLD ON CAMPUS.  And if your university
has already sold 10,000 macintoshes, Wolfram wants $10,000*X dollars
up front, before allowing future software discounts.

3.  Here at the U of Illinois, where Mathematica was developed, there
IS NO discount for the software.  $500 or $700, please.  I'm not
exactly sure whose fault this is, but someone is being very greedy --
either its Wolfram or the administration, I'm not sure.  I am
surprised he could develop the software using university facilities,
without giving the university anything as a token of gratitude.


Don Gillies, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Illinois
1304 W. Springfield, Urbana, Ill 61801      
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