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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!news.sprintlink.net!in2.uu.net!pipeline!psinntp!psinntp!psinntp!sdrc.com!thor!scjones From: scjones@thor.sdrc.com (Larry Jones) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: New Pricing: Is BSDI brain damaged? Date: 25 Aug 1995 22:23:21 GMT Organization: SDRC Engineering Services Lines: 14 Distribution: world Message-ID: <41ligp$452@info1.sdrc.com> References: <41i2i6$mmc@homer.alpha.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: thor.sdrc.com In article <41i2i6$mmc@homer.alpha.net>, Dean Roth <Dean_Roth@mgic.com> writes: > I'm looking for a new (modern) UNIX package. I was considering BSDI, but after seeing > the current prices I've changed my mind, and will start the hunt for a new UNIX > again. $3,000 is a big jump from the old price of about $600. Maybe I should give > that free Windows NT 3.5 package Microsoft gave me another consideration? The new price schedule is more for show than anything else -- big companies wouldn't take them seriously unless their price list looked like SCO's. Check out the new price list very carefully and talk to BSDI; you'll almost certainly be able to work out a reasonable deal. ---- Larry Jones, SDRC, 2000 Eastman Dr., Milford, OH 45150-2789 513-576-2070 larry.jones@sdrc.com Well, it's all a question of perspective. -- Calvin