toon@news.sara.nl (04/26/91)
In article <gemoe.672494649@gimli>, Gerhard.Moeller@arbi.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de (Gerhard Moeller) writes: > > Hello everybody. (exspecially those guys who work for NeXT) > > Just a few words from my point of view. (I'm German, studying Computing > Science at Oldenburg, FRG) > > You are discussing if NeXT is treating you well or not. Ok, here's how > they treat us in Europe: > > Students pay the same as any rich company or any person on the street. > There is NO special offer at all. (However, they promised to give 5% > off... - Probably after they raised the prices.) > For me it is cheaper to buy a color-SPARC than a color-NeXT. This is You lucky guys. Speaking for Holland - no NeXTs in sight. People I know are trying to become official dealers now for at least three quarters of a year - they started before the Sept. 18th announcements. For me it's not simply cheaper to fly to the States and buy a NeXT at commercial prices - it's the only way. And I'm not gonna do it; I need hardware support ... here and now. -- Toon Moene, SARA - Amsterdam (NL) Internet: TOON@SARA.NL /usr/lib/sendmail.cf: Do.:%@!=/
scott@mcs-server.gac.edu (Scott Hess) (04/27/91)
In article <1991Apr26.093814.2847@news.sara.nl> toon@news.sara.nl writes: In article <gemoe.672494649@gimli>, Gerhard.Moeller@arbi.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de (Gerhard Moeller) writes: > Students pay the same as any rich company or any person on the street. > There is NO special offer at all. (However, they promised to give 5% > off... - Probably after they raised the prices.) > For me it is cheaper to buy a color-SPARC than a color-NeXT. This is You lucky guys. Speaking for Holland - no NeXTs in sight. People I know are trying to become official dealers now for at least three quarters of a year - they started before the Sept. 18th announcements. For me it's not simply cheaper to fly to the States and buy a NeXT at commercial prices - it's the only way. And I'm not gonna do it; I need hardware support ... here and now. Not to say "I told you so", or anything, but _this_ is why we are supposed to give up the old keyboards for the new? I wonder - which is the chicken and which is the egg? Seriously, I guess I'll have to second (well, third or fourth) getting NeXT into Europe. I've had quite a number of missives from people in Europe wanting me to act as a connection between them and NeXT. It saddens me that, for the most part, I have no more power over this stuff than they do (No, really, NeXT doesn't listen to me, and at this point, I don't listen to them too hard, either :-). If we're going to have to work around various system stuff and hardware stuff to support our friends across the Atlantic, let's make sure that they can even get ahold of the stuff in the first place. From what I've seen, it's not even really a matter of educational discount versus no discount - most people simply cannot get a new NeXT via _any_ channel! Maybe NeXT has big amazing things in store for us there, but I thought we already _had_ big amazing things in store (didn't we?). Either way, it'd be nice to see them . . . Then again, there have been more and more European posters lately. Slow but sure wins the race (I hope! :-). Later, -- scott hess scott@gac.edu Independent NeXT Developer GAC Undergrad <I still speak for nobody> "Simply press Control-right-Shift while click-dragging the mouse . . ." "I smoke the nose Lucifer . . . Banana, banana."