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Re: IDL Student Edition for Linux? [message #3686]

Sun, 05 March 1995 06:38

gurman
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In article <3ja90p$lm2@decaxp.harvard.edu>, kkobayas@fas.harvard.edu (Ken
Kobayashi) wrote:

> gurman@uvsp.gsfc.nasa.gov (Joseph B. Gurman) writes:
>
>> ....and imagine how many tech support people they'd have to hire to
>> service those student licensees.... and how that cost would be reflected
>> in the license costs.... for other platforms?
>
> Well, as far as I know the student version of Mathematica includes NO
> tech support. Still I greatly appreciate its low price (~$150 or so, I
> think).

It would be interesting to see if RSI would go the same route, given
their purposely keeping the price of Windows and Mac licenses high in
order to avoid frustrating people trying to reach an overstretched tech
support group. I wonder if the idea of providing unsupported licenses has
even occurred to them as either an immediate revenue enhancer, or a
long-term strategy: hook 'em while they're young and they'll stick with
you forever. Makes you wonder about how different software marketing and
drug or religious cult marketing are.

Worked for unix, after all....

Joe Gurman

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		Re: IDL Student Edition for Linux? By: gurman on Sun, 05 March 1995 06:38
		Re: IDL Student Edition for Linux? By: davem on Sat, 04 March 1995 20:59
		Re: IDL Student Edition for Linux? By: kkobayas on Sat, 04 March 1995 09:46
		Re: IDL Student Edition for Linux? By: gurman on Sat, 04 March 1995 07:57
		Re: IDL Student Edition for Linux? By: miff on Wed, 08 March 1995 22:47
		Re: IDL Student Edition for Linux? By: rep2857 on Sun, 12 March 1995 18:51

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