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From: bmug@garnet.berkeley.edu (BMUG)
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Subject: Re: NEXTs to be sold at Computerland?
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Date: 28 Mar 89 00:57:39 GMT
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In article <18951@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> jec@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (James E. Conley) writes:
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>	I am curious if BusinessLand will honor the student discounts?  This
>might make it a lot easier for universities that are not really in the business
>of selling computers.
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>James Conley
>Indiana University Computer Science
>jec@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu

The story is that Businessland's price will be more like $10K.  I suspct
that NeXT is not so interested in universities selling the things as they
are in having them *support* them.  That's where the major money drain
is for many companies.  It remains to be seen how the support policies
on Businessland-marketed machines will go, but a lot of the $10K will
go to the enduser support budget for NeXT or Businessland, no doubt.

John Heckendorn
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