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Dear Prof. Fisher and Idrisi-l:
Since the Idrisi Project has not initially included lab kit upgrade
pricing on its web page, I telephoned to find out what the cost would be
to upgrade our 35 seat lab of Idrisi for Windows v.2.
A 10 seat lab kit upgrade from v2 to v32 will cost $1000 US rather than
the previous $475 to go from v1 to v2. Upgrading additional seats will be
$100 each. This represents a substantial increase, and it makes
maintaining Idrisi almost as expensive as our academic licensing for ESRI
and PCI software.
Incidentally, Idrisi Project staff also said that v32 is still only
"coming soon," perhaps late August, so I would hold on to your money for
the moment. Hopefully the developers take their time so that: (1) Idrisi
for Windows version 3 becomes truly Windows-based; and (2) we are not
faced with an upgrade, like that from v1 to v2, simply because of serious
bugs with printing, etc.
Given that some faculty have invested a good deal of time preparing
lectures and labs around Idrisi, we will likely purchase the upgrade,
budget permitting, but not for the 1999-2000 academic year.
Bruce Robin
GIS Laboratory Manager
University of Ottawa
On Tue, 6 Jul 1999, Fisher, Prof P.F. wrote:
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> Have you seen the prices for the new Idrisi32 lab kits?
>
> I have been looking at them recently and am very disturbed - bang goes the
> view that Idrisi is A) affordable and B) of benefit to the community.
>
> For the first time, at Leicester, we are looking at running Idrisi in a
> large lab - 50 machines.
>
> We will be using it with our first year class of 120 students +, and need
> for teaching efficiency to work with 50 students at a time.
>
> We are also going over to Windows 2000, but cannot abandon the legacy Idrisi
> for Dos users in other departments, and so cannot get an upgrade on our
> current lab kit license.
>
> The lab kit prices for Idrisi32 mean that we will be charged $12,500 for a
> set of licenses! ($2,500 base prices plus 40 x $250) - notice we get
> manuals with the 10 basic seats but none with the 40 extra seats.
>
> At present I cannot recommend this deal to the University or my colleagues
> who will now have to waste a great deal of time changing over practicals to
> Arc View and the like.
>
> Notice that in the UK we have a SITE LICENSE for ESRI products for which the
> base price is 3,500 GBP (about $8,000) with options beyond that - a site
> license for less than the price of Idrisi32 for 50 users.
>
> Since Idrisi went into the lab kit business, some of us have asked why they
> do not do site licenses.
>
> Is no one else teaching large lab classes who has to face these sorts of
> prices?
>
> I will be ordering my personal copy of Idrisi32 tomorrow however, it looks
> like a really interesting product with lots of now and interesting
> functions.
>
> Pete Fisher
>
>
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