mjs@ernie.Berkeley.EDU (Marc J. Sabatella) (11/04/87)
> >Borland has a very generous educational discount policy, with >prices for TC and TP at $40, available. The catch is you have >to be a student or faculty member. They verify your status by >having you either send them evidence (eg. copy of term bill) or >by sending you stuff at a university address. > Is this for real? When did this policy start, and WHY DON'T THEY PUBLICIZE THIS?????????????????????????? Marc Sabatella mjs@ernie.Berkeley.EDU
tdt@sfsup.UUCP (11/12/87)
>>Borland has a very generous educational discount policy, with >>prices for TC and TP at $40, available. The catch is you have >>to be a student or faculty member. Well I don't know about others on the net - but I wouldn't pay $40 for Turbo Pascal; I bought mine for $27, and I paid under $50 for Turbo-C. So, that is obviously not that great a deal (especially for Turbo Pascal.) -------- ____________ ____/--\____ \______ ___) ( _ ____) "Damn it Jim!, __\ \____/ / `--' I'm a programmer not a Doctor!" ) `|=(- \------------' Timothy D. Thomas AT&T Information Systems/Communications ..!{ihnp4,allegra}!attunix!tdt tdt@sfsup.att.com
spolsky-joel@CS.YALE.EDU (Joel Spolsky) (10/14/88)
In article <6407@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> woan@cory.Berkeley.EDU.UUCP (Ronald S. Woan) writes: | In article <323@mccc.UUCP> pjh@mccc.UUCP (Pete Holsberg) writes: | | Anyone associated with a college or university can purchase Turbo C 2.0 | | for $49.95, and/or Turbo Debugger+Assembler for $49.95 from Borland's | | Educational Sales. (408) 438-8400 | | | | Are people sure about this? I talked to a Borland representative a few weeks | ago, at a trade show, and was told that the educational discount was only | applicable to those taking classes using the compilers... The deal is that professors can request discount coupons for their students for all Borland products, by sending a request on school stationary. Some university computer centers also buy products at educational discount from Borland. University _bookstores_ can no longer do so for some capitalistic reason that escapes me right now. Disclaimer: I have nothing to do with Borland whatsoever nor do I claim to speak for them. +----------------+---------------------------------------------------+ | Joel Spolsky | bitnet: spolsky@yalecs uucp: ...!yale!spolsky | | | arpa: spolsky@yale.edu voicenet: 203-436-1483 | +----------------+---------------------------------------------------+ #include <disclaimer.h>
malloy@nprdc.arpa (Sean Malloy) (10/14/88)
In article <40268@yale-celray.yale.UUCP> spolsky-joel@CS.YALE.EDU (Joel Spolsky) writes: [comment and response about Borland's educational discount deleted] > University _bookstores_ can no >longer do so for some capitalistic reason that escapes me right now. It's probably an attempt to restrict educational-discount sales to _real_ students. As long as you pay cash, most university bookstores don't care whether you're a student or not. As a case in point, a couple of years ago, shortly after I graduated from SDSU, I went back to their bookstore to purchase a copy of Lotus 1-2-3 V2.01, because the $160 price they were selling it for was a far better deal than any other computer store offered. Sean Malloy Navy Personnel Research & Development Center San Diego, CA 92152-6800 malloy@nprdc.arpa