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- From: kang@mel.dbce.csiro.au (Kang Ho)
- Newsgroups: aus.sun-works
- Subject: Re: SPARC Classic edu pricing
- Message-ID: <578@highett.mel.dbce.csiro.au>
- Date: 19 Nov 92 22:12:43 GMT
- References: <peterj.722160609@infs1>
- Organization: CSIRO, Div. Building Constr. and Eng'ing, Melb., Australia
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- In article <peterj.722160609@infs1> peterj@swanee.ee.uwa.oz.au (Peter E. Jones) writes:
- >Has anyone got any joy out of Sun on how they have arrived at their
- >Australian discounted (sic) price for the Classic? In the US
- >the list price for the Classic is U$4,295 and edu at U$3,356.
- >The Oz price of A$8,500 hardly makes it competitive with other choices.
-
- Gee, I'm surprised at the difference in price. Even accounting for the higher
- cost of doing business here in Oz, lower Aussie dollar and sales tax, it still
- doesn't add up. What more, I believe the C Compiler doesn't come with it. You
- have to buy it additionally. It is sad, but I think Sun has gone the way of
- the _big_ computer companies and forgotten its early days and grass-root
- support :-(
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