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Exciting stuff (Be sure to read if you're a distributor)
Dear Folks,
Work steadily progresses on V1.2.1, the documentation and the
packaging. We've fixed many bugs, especially printing related ones.
We think that V1.2.1 will be sufficiently useful to the general
public that we're going to start *marketing* it instead of just
selling it through word of mouth. However, the versions that will be
sold through distributers will not have any restrictions on which
apps will run and which won't; they'll also come automatically with
one years worth of free upgrades; the retail price will be $360. If
you've already purchased a more limited version of Executor for one
machine and want to upgrade to this fully unlimited version, we'll do
that for $350 minus whatever you've already paid to us, and we'll
make sure your free upgrades run until October 1, 1993. If you've
already purchased a limited version of Executor for multiple machines
and you want to upgrade, contact me directly. Whether or not you
upgrade, you'll still be sent a manual and an upgrade to 1.2.1 when
they're ready.
To get things going, we're putting in a full page ad in the
next copy of NeXTWORLD. In addition to it being an ad for us, it
will also list the names, addresses and phone numbers of the
distributers who have ordered five or more copies for resale before
August 15th (we have to have the ad final art in by the 21st of
August). If you're a distributer and you'd like to participate in
this ad, please send me e-mail. This is the first we've said
anything of this, so if you're a dealer and I've said that we'd like
to work with you, we still do; we just haven't sent individual e-mail
or made calls yet; we're going to be doing much of that next week.
We will still offer the limited versions of Executor, we
think they are very valuable for people who aren't so much interested
in emulating a Mac per se, but to just run specific programs (usually
either Word or Excel). We will also be selling the limited versions
to VARs so that they can sell a dozen NeXTs, equipped with Word
and/or Excel, without having to pay for a full purpose Mac emulator.
Gotta run,
--Cliff