Yes, Rene, by definition, everything decided is a decision...
However, some decisions are worse than others. This morning I decided
whether to eat a bagel and grapefruit juice at home, or get a McDonald's
biscuit and orange juice on the way to the office. I chose the McD biscuit.
That was an OK decision. But if this morning I had decided to rob a bank
instead of go to work at the office, that would have been a bad decision. I
can imagine the excuses that Andersen, Enron, and Worldcom executives may be
giving for their actions "it was an executive decision". Well, duh, they
were executives and they made decisions. VERY BAD ONES!
I won't be basing my beliefs on what is fair by what Microsoft (or Altium)
do. If I started operating my business that way, I would be out of business
quickly ("Thank you for your order. Oh, did I mention that your price just
went up 100%? That's because we came out with Rev C of the board and you
never bought any Rev B boards, just Rev A's. If you had bought some Rev
B's, you new price for Rev C's would be only 50% higher.").
Best regards,
Ivan Baggett
Bagotronix Inc.
website: www.bagotronix.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rene Tschaggelar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Protel EDA Forum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, August 01, 2002 12:05 PM
Subject: Re: [PEDA] Re[2]: Not DXP or P99SE, but have you seen the Cadence
offer!!!!
> Isn't it the other way round ?
> Having bought the last version you're regarded as 'good' customer
> and get a higher discount than another one that bought something
> 10 years back ?
> Anyway, it is a decision. Microsoft decided in the case of office
> software that there are those who have a service agreement ($$$)
> and all the others are new customers that always pay the full
> price.
> There is no obligation to offer a discount, really.
>
> Rene
>
> Bagotronix Tech Support wrote:
> >
> > I wonder if the software can tell, during installation, which version
you
> > actually had and refuse to install if it's not the "upgrade jump" you
paid
> > for?
> >
> > IMO, I think it's a shady business practice to charge someone more for
an
> > upgrade just because they skipped a version. That's the same as forcing
> > them to buy something they didn't want. They didn't get the use of
those
> > intermediate versions, so why should they pay for them?
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Ivan Baggett
> > Bagotronix Inc.
> > website: www.bagotronix.com
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Rene Tschaggelar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: "Protel EDA Forum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Thursday, August 01, 2002 10:40 AM
> > Subject: Re: [PEDA] Re[2]: Not DXP or P99SE, but have you seen the
Cadence
> > offer!!!!
> >
> > > My distributor told me yesterday, that ATS was additional to the usual
> > > upgradeability. Meaning you can get DXP whenever you want. The price
> > > increases with the number of versions you're behind. Same as when you
> > > now upgrade a 2.8 to 99SE, which is more expensive than a 98 to a
> > > 99SE.
> > > Together with DXP you get ATS, whatever this for a year and you don't
> > > have to extend it when it expires.
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