andreas@falke.?? (Andreas Eisele) (05/18/91)
Our institute would like to purchase Diagram! from Lighthouse Design for a NeXTstation at the educational price of $75.--. However, as it seems, we can not buy it, since both Lighthouse and NeXT Connection have a minimum amount of $ 250.-- for shipments outside the US. As far as I know, no actual shipment has to be done, since we only need a registration number in order to turn the demo version from the archive at Purdue into a full functional version and since all documentation is included online in this version (does someone know if this assumption holds?). In the ideal case, we would tell Lighthouse or NeXT Connection our MasterCard number and they would give us the registration number for the program. In this way everything could be done within a couple of days and besides two FAX messages no additional costs would arise. I proposed this to Lighthouse, but they said they would not handle orders below their minimum amount. They suggested to buy 4 licences instead (which is a bit too much for a single slab, I think). I also asked a nearby NeXT-dealer, but they want more than $250 for a _single_ academic licence... So for me it looks as if it is not possible for a non-US academic institution to buy a single licence of Diagram! at the educational price (sigh), or does someone have a proposal? Perhaps some other non-US academic customers (perferably in Germany) want to participate in a collective order? Or does anyone have a spare licence they want to sell? Thanks for any suggestion, Andreas +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Andreas Eisele Institut fuer maschinelle Sprachverarbeitung| |Tel.: +49-711-121-3128 Universitaet Stuttgart, Keplerstrasse 17 | |Fax.: +49-711-121-3141 D-7000 Stuttgart 1, Fed. Rep. of Germany | |Internet: andreas@adler.philosophie.uni-stuttgart.de | +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+ -- +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Andreas Eisele Institut fuer maschinelle Sprachverarbeitung| |Tel.: +49-711-121-3128 Universitaet Stuttgart, Keplerstrasse 17 | |Fax.: +49-711-121-3141 D-7000 Stuttgart 1, Fed. Rep. of Germany | |Internet: andreas@adler.philosophie.uni-stuttgart.de | +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+
PPSTL@livid.uib.no (05/20/91)
------------------------- Original Article ------------------------- Path: lilje.uib.no!ugle.unit.no!sunic!mcsun!unido!ira.uka.de!rusmv1!rusmv1!andre From: andreas@falke.?? (Andreas Eisele) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Diagram! edu. price outside US? how? Message-ID: <ANDREAS.91May17175219@falke.??> Date: 17 May 91 17:52:19 GMT Sender: news@rusmv1.rus.uni-stuttgart.de (USENET News System) Distribution: comp Organization: /users1/andreas/.organization Lines: 47 Our institute would like to purchase Diagram! from Lighthouse Design for a NeXTstation at the educational price of $75.--. However, as it seems, we can not buy it, since both Lighthouse and NeXT Connection have a minimum amount of $ 250.-- for shipments outside the US. As far as I know, no actual shipment has to be done, since we only need a registration number in order to turn the demo version from the archive at Purdue into a full functional version and since all documentation is included online in this version (does someone know if this assumption holds?). In the ideal case, we would tell Lighthouse or NeXT Connection our MasterCard number and they would give us the registration number for the program. In this way everything could be done within a couple of days and besides two FAX messages no additional costs would arise. I proposed this to Lighthouse, but they said they would not handle orders below their minimum amount. They suggested to buy 4 licences instead (which is a bit too much for a single slab, I think). I also asked a nearby NeXT-dealer, but they want more than $250 for a _single_ academic licence... So for me it looks as if it is not possible for a non-US academic institution to buy a single licence of Diagram! at the educational price (sigh), or does someone have a proposal? Perhaps some other non-US academic customers (perferably in Germany) want to participate in a collective order? Or does anyone have a spare licence they want to sell? Thanks for any suggestion, Andreas +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Andreas Eisele Institut fuer maschinelle Sprachverarbeitung| |Tel.: +49-711-121-3128 Universitaet Stuttgart, Keplerstrasse 17 | |Fax.: +49-711-121-3141 D-7000 Stuttgart 1, Fed. Rep. of Germany | |Internet: andreas@adler.philosophie.uni-stuttgart.de | +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+ -- +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Andreas Eisele Institut fuer maschinelle Sprachverarbeitung| |Tel.: +49-711-121-3128 Universitaet Stuttgart, Keplerstrasse 17 | |Fax.: +49-711-121-3141 D-7000 Stuttgart 1, Fed. Rep. of Germany | |Internet: andreas@adler.philosophie.uni-stuttgart.de | +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+ I had my copy shipped to a friend in the States who mailed it to me. Costs $25 (the $250 stuff is for when they send you things - DHL is fast but expensive :-) Thor me@fiol.uib.no