> I'm guessing that your institution wasn't experienced > buying sun > equipment so didn't have people in purchasing who > were aware of these > things. Worse they may have just asked for a quote > for the U10's from > the same computer hardware reseller that they ordered > everything else > from. Resellers were notorious for not always letting > EDU's know they > could get a much better price direct from Sun.
Actually my institution had exactly *ZERO* Sun and Solaris equipment, as well as exactly *ZERO* academic staff that even knew what Solaris was. We learned UNIX and shell scripting on SCO OpenServer running on a vanilla PC. And there was only one of those for the entire school. Except for myself, nobody ever saw, much less physically worked on any Sun equipment. You should have seen the glazed & confused looks as we started on X servers, diskless clients, Solaris... Anyways, the point is that pricing should be the same and fair for *everyone*, and that no special deals should be needed to get to the point where the pricing is sane and acceptable. That rigth there is a logical fallacy, because we are assuming it is OK to be hammering out special deals and "discounts". Well, it's not OK. Not at all. That model has to die! This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
