coggins@coggins.cs.unc.edu (Dr. James Coggins) (06/28/89)
In article <50@eileen.samsung.com>, sacco@eileen.samsung.com (Joseph E. Sacco) writes: > > For many of us in the C++ community who have been waiting anxiously > for months for the release of Rev 2.0, the announcement of June 30 as > THE official release date evoked an audible sigh of relief. Here, too. ... then he found out the pricing structure... > I DAMN NEAR DIED! Me too, when I found out from your article! > There as also a brief, verbal discussion on fees for universities. I > believe it was stated that there would be no more site licenses but > rather a flat fee of $300 per CPU. The university fee schedule was not > included in the FAX I received so I do not have that information in > writing. > > I was under the impression that AT&T was interested in making C++ the > next "standard" language of choice. I see the five-to-ten-fold fee > increase to be counter to that goal at this time. It would appear > that AT&T is pushing end users toward third party suppliers of binary > versions of the translator. I believe that action to be premature. > John Carolan described Release 1.2 as $2000 worth of bugs. He was > correct. However, given access to the source code and the C++ community > through the net, one could work with Release 1.2 to learn the language and > sketch inital designs. Given the current state of flux of the language The attitude seems consistent with "Thanks for your contributions, university communities. Now get out of our way so we can make some MONEY!" Without drastic change within about 2 weeks, I'm switching to g++. In fairness to the AT&T employees who have been contributing to the Net community, someone should point out (and it might as well be me) that (a) pricing is not done by our AT&T friends on the Net so don't flame them for things not under their control, (b) the AT&T folks on the net have to be restrained about their opinions on things like ridiculous toads setting even more ridiculous pricing policies, so inquiries to them often won't be answered because they can't, and they also can't engage in gratuitous flaming of their own company, and (c) the AT&T folks on the net are not official spokespeople for the company so don't expect any pronouncements through the Net. Rest assured there's been some hair pulled in Murray Hill. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. James M. Coggins coggins@cs.unc.edu Computer Science Department Questions: "How 'bout them HEELS?" UNC-Chapel Hill Correct response: Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3175 "How 'BOUT them Heels?" and NASA Center of Excellence in Space Data and Information Science ---------------------------------------------------------------------
carroll@paul.rutgers.edu (V. I. Lenin) (06/29/89)
> Rest assured there's been some hair pulled in Murray Hill.
Also in Liberty Corner.
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