At 02:36 PM 8/13/2002 -0500, Robison Michael R CNIN wrote: >We bought a couple special-deal copies of Protel 99SE from >Altium here recently, and they've been in-house now for a >a while. I believe part of the deal on the cheapness was >that it didn't upgrade automatically to DXP, and maybe not >at all.
It is unlikely that such deals would not include ATS, unless it was purchased before the cut-off date, which was last year, I forget exactly when. All the deals of which I am aware would have included ATS. If this was some very special deal that explicitly excluded upgrade rights and ATS, that would be a different story. You can easily call Altium and find out.... >Are they expecting me to naively go thru >the entire installation just to find out I don't have a reg >number, and then throw up my arms in surrender and immedi- >ately send them a check for $7000 (or whatever they're charg- >ing for it now)? Or has there been some sort of mistake? No and No, I don't think so. First of all, with the exception of free licenses that Protel has occasionally dispersed, say, to employees, any licensed copy of 99SE is eligible for upgrade. The upgrade price, right now, is $1995, it is certainly not $7000. And if the copy was purchased (or obtained as an upgrade to 99SE) after the cutoff date last year, it included one year of ATS; to my knowledge all these licenses receive DXP for free. If you bought a used license, generally that would not include ATS, *unless* it was originally purchased or upgraded to 99SE after the cutoff date. ************************************************************************ * Tracking #: 13490E42C53D3440B1EDA57495061AC409DF9249 * ************************************************************************ * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * To post a message: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * * To leave this list visit: * http://www.techservinc.com/protelusers/leave.html * * Contact the list manager: * mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * * Forum Guidelines Rules: * http://www.techservinc.com/protelusers/forumrules.html * * Browse or Search previous postings: * http://www.mail-archive.com/proteledaforum@techservinc.com * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
