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- From: traub@rtf.bt.co.uk (Michael Traub)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
- Subject: Re: A bit about BP7
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.130136.23903@rtf.bt.co.uk>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 13:01:36 GMT
- References: <1992Nov11.012258.27466@borland.com> <1992Nov12.123026.2642@rtf.bt.co.uk> <1992Nov13.190343.2644@borland.com>
- Organization: BT Customer Systems, Brighton, UK
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- In article <1992Nov13.190343.2644@borland.com> chard@borland.com (Richard Nelson) writes:
- >>If TP Pro is being superseded by BP7 why does it cost 99 pounds to
- >>upgrade to BP7 from TP Pro *or* 99 pounds to upgrade from just plain TP?
- >>Shouldn't it cost less to upgrade from the professional version? More to
- >>the point I was told it costs 99 pounds to upgrade from any of TP,TP Pro
- >>or TPW. Since I have both TPW and TP Pro I asked what the upgrade price
- >>would then be. I was still told 99 pounds!!!!
- >
- >Well, I don't set prices, but it strikes me that either way, it's a
- >heck of a good deal. I won't quibble over whether people who own pro
- >versions should pay less to upgrade than those who don't. Just ask
- >yourself, is it worth 99 pounds?
-
- Well I haven't upgraded that's for sure. Borland have lost another customer
- if they expect me to pay 99 quid when I have already obediently purchased
- both the DOS and Windows versions of Turbo Pascal. Next I suppose they
- will want another 99 quid for an OS/2 version.
-
- >One motivation behind having a single upgrade price, I believe, is
- >that there has been a significant amount of confusion in the past when
- >we've offered more complicated upgrade offers. I know that the last
- >C++ upgrade had 5 or 6 different options, depending on what you were
- >upgrading from and to. This is really simple, and I think it's a
- >great bargain, no matter what you're upgrading from.
-
- I had no confusion. I had already bought BC++ and application frameworks
- separately and the upgrade cost me **nothing**! Compare that to 99 quid!
-
- >>I assume BP7 is nothing more than an amalgamation of TP Pro and TPW with
- >>bug fixes and a few new goodies thrown in so why the large upgrade price?
- >
- >That assumption is largely wrong. BP7 is a significant upgrade to
- >both the DOS and Windows versions, bundled in a single box, with new
- >features that neither previous product included, most notably the
- >ability to produce protected-mode applications. Plus it includes the
- >full source code for the run-time library and the application
- >frameworks.
-
- I don't need any of these things. I need an up to date Pascal compiler
- with separate debugger and windows support.
-
- > It's a great deal.
-
- I thought you said you weren't a salesperson?-)
-
-
- --
- Michael Traub
- BT Customer Systems, Brighton Systems Centre. traub@btcs.bt.co.uk
-