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Re: IDL [message #2013 is a reply to message #296]

Thu, 12 May 1994 19:56

gurman
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In article <2quej9$afq@news.bu.edu>, anders@uss-enterprise.bu.edu (Anders M
Jorgensen) wrote:

> [ Article crossposted from sci.astro.research ]
> [ Author was Luca Fini ]
> [ Posted on 12 May 1994 10:02:50 -0500 ]
>
> [although somewhat on the fringe of the charter, since IDL is a
> rather popular analysis package used by astronomers, maybe one
> of us knows the answer to this question - mod.]
>
> This is not a post about science. Sometimes we have to go down to
> dirty jobs...
>
> Now we are going to make a major upgrade of uor network of SparcStations,
> we are moving form SunOS4.1.1 to Solaris 2.3.
> Looking around to find new versions of the licenced pakages we have
> (Autocad, Matlab, and others) we have experienced pretty good interactions
> with vendors: all of them will provide the new versions of their packages
> at special "upgrade" prices (we usually have not software maintenance
> contracts), *EXCEPT* for IDL. They simply want to sell us a new package
> from scratch.
>
> My question is: is this a problem due to the Italian reseller, or is it a
> general policy of RSI ?

Luca -

My understanding is that in the US RSI offers a credit on
cross-platform (such as MIPS Ultrix -> Alpha OSF/1 upgrades), but that it
will allow OS upgrades on the same machine free. I don't run Suns, so has
anyone who does had to find out?

My guess is that the Italian distributor is, as we say, taking you for
a ride.

Good luck,

Joe Gurman
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