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- From: des@inmos.co.uk (David Shepherd)
- Subject: Re: Price level of OS/2 2.0 in Germany
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.105114.14589@wraxall.inmos.co.uk>
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- References: <722431093marten.marten@feki.toppoint.de>
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 92 10:51:13 GMT
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- Marten Feldtmann (marten@feki.toppoint.de) wrote:
- : The price of OS/2 2.0 in Germany is (at last!) falling down quite a
- : bit. Though the official price is still more than 400 .- DM ($250), it's
- : possible to get the software out on the street for about 250.- DM
- : ($156), sometimes even less -- that's the way it should go....
- :
- : But where are the applications ... I've seen an ad for deScribe for
- : about 1700.- DM ($1060)? Up to this time the following rule is still
- : valid: buy window software and use it under OS/2 ....
-
- in the UK OS/2 is still on "special" offer so it can be bought for
- #95 ($146). registered OS/2 users got a "special intro offer" (sic)
- on DeScribe a few months back of #399 ($614) with normal proce
- being #499 ($768).
-
- i've just bought AMI pro v3. in the UK the cheapest price available
- for this seems to be #270 ($415). instead i ordered from one of
- the US firms that have a UK toll free number and got it for #170
- ($262) - i placed an order at 11pm thursday night with the firm in
- california and it was delivered at 9am this morning! - that's a better
- response than i've had from uk suppliers. the downside is that i have
- a US version so (a) will have to put up with a spell checker that can't
- spell :-) and (b) won't get support ... though i think i'm able to
- sort things out myself and there's always the net to consult! all
- in all, i think i can find better things to do with #100 than give
- it to lotus UK.
-
- BTW, just realized, all the prices above need 17.5% VAT adding to them.
-
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