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- From: an030@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Broward Horne)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.att,comp.sys.novell,misc.invest
- Subject: Re: Novell to buy USL
- Date: 26 Dec 1992 20:51:18 GMT
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
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- In a previous article, messina@netcom.com (Tony Porczyk) says:
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- >an030@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Broward Horne) writes:
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- >>In a previous article, messina@netcom.com (Tony Porczyk) says:
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- >>>Just to interject some sanity here - when was the last time you checked
- >>>prices for UNIX software? Why don't you do that before talking about
- >>>making huge amounts of money. This is the problem - UNIX will never
- >>>make it to Joe Blow's desktop as long as the prices are that obscene.
- >>
- >> USL educational discount - $50 per machine
- >
- >I was talking about Joe Blow running spreadsheets and databases (no,
- >not $50,000 Sybase or Oracle). So forget the educational discount,
- >and also look at the prices of apps (many different kinds of apps, not
- >just your favorite pet app). Write again after you recover from a
- >heart attack.
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- You can run your dos stuff in it. What's the difference?
- Why ELSE would I be looking at it for student labs? :)
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- >
- >t.
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