[email protected] (Stephen Y Odo) writes: > Thus we paid regular price (less 15% academic institution discount). > Which made it way too expensive for us. And paved the way for our > migration to Solaris (which was FREE whether we used it for academic OR > research OR administrative purposes).
I vaguely remember in the 60s ... the academic institution discount was 40% ... but that seemed to change with the 23jun69 unbundling announcement (in response to gov. litigation) ... along with starting to charge for application software, SE services, and other stuff. http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#unbundle -- 42yrs virtualization experience (since Jan68), online at home since Mar1970 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
