sipples@husc2.UUCP (11/06/87)
>This policy of theirs [Borland's] is a wise move, since today's students are >tomorrow's customers, something Apple understands very well. >Other companies [MICROSOFT ARE YOU LISTENING?!] would do well >to emulate it. Microsoft sells Word 4.0, at least, through Harvard's Technology Product Center for $85, making it the least expensive commercial word processing program available to students/faculty. Bill Gates went to Harvard. Timothy Sipples | sipples@husc3.BITNET | sipples%husc2@husc6.harvard.edu | ...ihnp4!seismo!harvard!husc6!husc2!sipples
ugfailau@sunybcs.uucp (Fai Lau) (11/06/87)
In article ...... (who wrote it?) >>This policy of theirs [Borland's] is a wise move, since today's students are >>tomorrow's customers, something Apple understands very well. >>Other companies [MICROSOFT ARE YOU LISTENING?!] would do well >>to emulate it. Our school is selling computers at unbeatable price. They're selling AT&T, IBM, Apple, Mac, Zenith, etc. cheaper than some NYC mail orders. They give you the computer now, get your committment, then sell you stuff later on when you're out of school and making bucks. Fai Lau SUNY at Buffalo (The Arctic Wonderland) UUCP: ..{mit-ems|watmath|rocksanne}!sunybcs!ugfailau BI: ugfailau@sunybcs
akk2@ur-tut.UUCP (Atul Kacker) (11/06/87)
In article <1330@husc2.UUCP> sipples@husc2.UUCP (Timothy Sipples) writes: > >Microsoft sells Word 4.0, at least, through Harvard's Technology Product >Center for $85, making it the least expensive commercial word processing >program available to students/faculty. > >Bill Gates went to Harvard. Bill Gates going to Harvard has nothing to do (I believe) with the TPC selling Word for $85. Any educational institution can sign an agreement with Microsoft that would enable them to buy MS Word at around $80 a copy. The catch is that you have to buy about a $100,000 worth of Microsoft products each year. -- Atul Kacker Internet: akk2@tut.cc.rochester.edu UUCP : {rutgers,topaz}!rochester!tut!akk2
singer@XN.LL.MIT.EDU (Matthew R. Singer) (11/06/87)
In article <1330@husc2.UUCP>, sipples@husc2.UUCP (sipples) writes: > >This policy of theirs [Borland's] is a wise move, since today's students are > >tomorrow's customers, something Apple understands very well. > >Other companies [MICROSOFT ARE YOU LISTENING?!] would do well > >to emulate it. > > Microsoft sells Word 4.0, at least, through Harvard's Technology Product > Center for $85, making it the least expensive commercial word processing > program available to students/faculty. > > Bill Gates went to Harvard. > > Timothy Sipples | sipples@husc3.BITNET > | sipples%husc2@husc6.harvard.edu > | ...ihnp4!seismo!harvard!husc6!husc2!sipples Bill Gates dropped out of Harvard...
sipples@husc2.UUCP (sipples) (11/08/87)
>>Bill Gates went to Harvard. [mine] > >Bill Gates going to Harvard has nothing to do (I believe) with the TPC >selling Word for $85. Any educational institution can sign an agreement ":-)" implied. Also, correcting my original post, the price is $83.
sipples@husc2.UUCP (sipples) (11/08/87)
>> Bill Gates went to Harvard. > >Bill Gates dropped out of Harvard... Add two :-)s.
mjg@ecsvax.UUCP (Michael Gingell) (11/09/87)
In article <789@xn.LL.MIT.EDU>, singer@XN.LL.MIT.EDU (Matthew R. Singer) writes: > In article <1330@husc2.UUCP>, sipples@husc2.UUCP (sipples) writes: > > Bill Gates went to Harvard. > > Bill Gates dropped out of Harvard... See what happens if you drop out of Harvard ... you become a Billionaire .. at least before the stock market crashes ... with an example like that what are you guys at Harvard waiting for ?. Mike G. ...ecsvax!mjg
mcdonald@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu (11/10/87)
The idea of these almost giveaway prices is to get students and faculty hooked on a particular brand of product in the hope that they will go out into the real world and influence their employer's buying habits. This works great for all companies except IBM. The reasoning in that case works like this: "If IBM gives us, a really big outfit, (the University of Illinois) all this stuff, and them gives us such poor (i.e. none at all) support, just imagine what support they will give a small company or an individual." The amount of help I've got from IBM is zero. The amount of useful help I've got from our contact with IBM is a 30 minute peek at a model 50/60 tech refernce manual. Doug McDonald