mrice@caen.engin.umich.edu (Michael Rice) (09/20/90)
Hello. I would like to purchase Borland's Turbo C++. I have heard there is an educational discount available for students. Since I can't seem to find it at Campus stores, I was wondering how to go about getting this discount. I would appreciate any help you can give in this area. Thanks, Mike
ron@woan (Ronald S. Woan) (09/20/90)
In article <1990Sep20.034132.3745@caen.engin.umich.edu>, mrice@caen.engin.umich.edu (Michael Rice) writes: Mike> Hello. I would like to purchase Borland's Turbo C++. I have Mike> heard there is an educational discount available for students. Mike> Since I can't seem to find it at Campus stores, I was wondering Mike> how to go about getting this discount. I would appreciate any Mike> help you can give in this area. If it is the same as the past Borland educational discounts, you'll have to contact Borland directly. Also with past discounts, you had to prove that you are using the product in conjunction with a class. Borland is running a $149 deal for the Turbo C++ Pro package for owners of any other C or C++ compiler (time to dig up my old Datalight, while I wait for my Zortech Developers package to come). Ron +-----All Views Expressed Are My Own And Are Not Necessarily Shared By------+ +------------------------------My Employer----------------------------------+ + Ronald S. Woan woan@peyote.cactus.org or woan@austin.iinus1.ibm.com + + other email addresses Prodigy: XTCR74A Compuserve: 73530,2537 +
reisert@ricks.enet.dec.com (Jim Reisert) (09/20/90)
In article <1990Sep20.034132.3745@caen.engin.umich.edu>, mrice@caen.engin.umich.edu (Michael Rice) writes... > >Hello. I would like to purchase Borland's Turbo C++. I have >heard there is an educational discount available for students. >Since I can't seem to find it at Campus stores, I was wondering >how to go about getting this discount. Call Borland, the number I have is 1-800-331-0877. Ask to talk to someone about software for educational institutions. They'll probably tell you what you have to do. One company I tried said you had to have a professor write a letter to Borland that says you're one of his/her students, then Borland would send you a coupon good for the eductational price of the software. I never went through with it, and the reason escapes me. jim =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= "The opinions expressed here in no way represent the views of Digital Equipment Corporation." James J. Reisert Internet: reisert@ricks.enet.dec.com Digital Equipment Corp. UUCP: ...decwrl!ricks.enet!reisert 77 Reed Road Hudson, MA 01749-2895
brown@hydra2e.cs.utk.edu (Lance A. Brown) (09/21/90)
One way of getting the Discount proce for TC++ is to have the order mailed to Borland on your school's letterhead. I got this direct from the horse's mouth when getting pricings from the order department of Borland. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Lance A. Brown brown@cs.utk.edu 3500 Sutherland Avenue, Apt. L-303 Graduate Student in Computer Science Knoxville, TN 37919 Sun SparcStaions are Neat! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
gordon@osiris.cso.uiuc.edu (John Gordon) (09/21/90)
Actually, Borland's "Student Discount" isn't all that great of a deal. I've seen TC++ priced at around $140-$150 from the mail order places, which is just about the same price Borland is offering, maybe a _little_ higher.
garrett@brahms.udel.edu (Joel Garrett) (09/21/90)
In article <15481@shlump.nac.dec.com> reisert@ricks.enet.dec.com (Jim Reisert) writes: >Call Borland, the number I have is 1-800-331-0877. Ask to talk to someone >about software for educational institutions. They'll probably tell you what >you have to do. One company I tried said you had to have a professor write >a letter to Borland that says you're one of his/her students, then Borland >would send you a coupon good for the eductational price of the software. I >never went through with it, and the reason escapes me. > FYI, I just called the above 800 number (evidently Borland's order number) and asked about software for educational institutions. The person at the other end of the line took my name and address to send me complete information on Borland's educational software discount program. I didn't ask about student rates, but I did find out about staff/faculty ordering instructions, as I am a staff member here, in addition to being a part-time student. For faculty and staff, you need to send your order in on departmental/university letterhead in order to qualify and you HAVE to place your order by mail, they will not do educational discount orders by phone (they use the letterhead as proof of the fact that you work for the educational institution in question) When I get the pricing/total information for the educational discount program sometime next week, I'll post another followup if people are interested. Please send email to let me know if y'all are interested... Joel Garrett garrett@brahms.udel.edu In add >James J. Reisert Internet: reisert@ricks.enet.dec.com >Digital Equipment Corp. UUCP: ...decwrl!ricks.enet!reisert >77 Reed Road >Hudson, MA 01749-2895
joe@proto.COM (Joe Huffman) (09/21/90)
In article <1990Sep20.034132.3745@caen.engin.umich.edu>, mrice@caen.engin.umich.edu (Michael Rice) writes: > > Hello. I would like to purchase Borland's Turbo C++. I have > heard there is an educational discount available for students. > Since I can't seem to find it at Campus stores, I was wondering > how to go about getting this discount. I would appreciate any Send email to 'zortech-ed@proto.com' :-) Zortech has a policy of giving educational discounts to people with '.edu' addresses. No hassles with 'qualifying' for the discount. Get a faster compiler that generates faster and smaller code, 800 x 600 super VGA graphics support, email bug reporting, etc, etc. $75.00 for the compiler, $200 for the developers edition (compiler, debugger, source code to the libraries, toolkit class library, etc). --- Zortech mailing list: send email to 'ztc-list-request@uunet.uu.net' with: Add: your-user-name@your-machine-name In the body of the message. --- Send Zortech bug reports to 'zortech-bugs@proto.com' --- Zortech is my major source of income. Statements about them or their competitors cannot be totally without bias. -- joe@proto.com FAX: 208-263-8772
ergo@netcom.UUCP (Isaac Rabinovitch) (09/22/90)
In <3595@awdprime.UUCP> ron@woan (Ronald S. Woan) writes: >In article <1990Sep20.034132.3745@caen.engin.umich.edu>, >mrice@caen.engin.umich.edu (Michael Rice) writes: >Mike> Hello. I would like to purchase Borland's Turbo C++. I have >Mike> heard there is an educational discount available for students. >Mike> Since I can't seem to find it at Campus stores, I was wondering >Mike> how to go about getting this discount. I would appreciate any >Mike> help you can give in this area. >If it is the same as the past Borland educational discounts, you'll >have to contact Borland directly. Also with past discounts, you had to >prove that you are using the product in conjunction with a class. In <1990Sep20.193721.774@cs.utk.edu> brown@hydra2e.cs.utk.edu (Lance A. Brown) writes: >One way of getting the Discount proce for TC++ is to have the order mailed >to Borland on your school's letterhead. I got this direct from the horse's >mouth when getting pricings from the order department of Borland. And *I* was under the impression you only had to convince them you were a student. The software discount policies go, especially at Borland, each of these policies may have been in effect one time or another, or even all three at once! I recall seeing postings by a guy who claimed to be in charge of educational software sales for Borland. Forget his name, but he used Portal, so you could probably get his mailing address from cs@portal.com. -- ergo@netcom.uucp Isaac Rabinovitch {apple,amdahl,claris}!netcom!ergo Silicon Valley, CA Collins's Law: If you can't make a mistake, you can't make anything. Corollaries ("Rabinovitch's Rules of Sane Dialogue"): 1. Everybody who matters is stupid now and then. 2. If I'm being stupid, that's my problem. 3. If my being stupid makes you stupid, that's your problem. 4. If you think you're never stupid, boy are you stupid!