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Re: DataMiner [message #33694 is a reply to message #33533] Fri, 17 January 2003 06:05 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
David Burridge is currently offline  David Burridge
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> At that price they can afford to be attentive!
>
> Looking back over my records, I see that we paid US$350 + $US50 shipping &
> handling in 1997 for the Dataminer add-on for a single IDL 5.0/Windows
> license, with maintenance to be paid "as needed". Apparently it never has
> been needed.
>
> Perhaps RSI have revised their pricing strategy since then. Just in case
> anyone from RSI gets any ideas, I will say 450 euro per year is way more
> blood than can be extracted from this particular stone. At that price I'd
> rather go and get the records from the database one at a time on punch
> cards.

Have you *seen* the maintenance cost of those newfangled punched card
readers? !-)

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David Burridge
Burridge Computing, 18 The Green South
Warborough, Oxon, OX10 7DN
England
Tel: +44 (0) 1865 858279, Email: davidb@burridgecomputing.co.uk



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