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OSF Electronic Flash
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (OSF Corporate Communications)
Tue Jul 26 16:35:19 1994
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Date: Tuesday, July 26, 1994
To: OSF Members
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Open Software Foundation
Subject: OSF Press Release: New Pricing for DCE 1.1
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OSF ELECTRONIC FLASH
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An electronic mail flash for OSF Members from the Open
Software Foundation
July 26, 1994
CONTACT : Jane Smeloff
Open Software Foundation
(617) 621-8997
OSF MAKES DCE AFFORDABLE FOR ALL
Capitalizing on the growing momentum of DCE, pricing has
been significantly reduced to encourage pervasive
industry adoption
CAMBRIDGE, MA July 26, 1994 -- The Open Software
Foundation today announced new pricing and promotional
offers for their Distributed Computing Environment (DCE)
Release 1.1. The new pricing is in response to the
growing need from desktop vendors and end users who are
demanding greater availability of DCE on the desktop.
"With DCE 1.0 gaining widespread adoption, and DCE 1.1
shipping later this year, we think the time is right to
significantly reduce client prices and offer special
incentives for upgrades," said Joe Maloney, DCE Business
Area Manager. "We expect this pricing to have a major
impact, especially in the desktop market."
The following summarizes the changes between DCE 1.0
pricing and DCE 1.1 pricing:
- Client (Executive) Object fees have been reduced
from $75 and $25 (based on volume) to $2.00
regardless of volume.
- The price for an annual paid up license of the
Client (Executive) has been reduced from $500,000
per year, per operating system, to $100,000, per
year, per operating system.
- The Administrative Tool Package has been reduced
from $75 to $2.00 on a per copy basis or
alternatively, when bundled with the client, 20% of
the net client fee.
- First time purchase of a DCE 1.1 source license
with full distribution rights will remain at
$250,000 as in DCE 1.0.
- The upgrade fee from a full distribution DCE 1.0
license to a full distribution DCE 1.1 license is
$100,000. Full support customers will receive a
$35,000 discount on this upgrade, making their
effective cost $65,000.
- All other DCE pricing, including server pricing,
remains unchanged.
In addition to the new pricing structure, OSF will be
offering two special promotions to accelerate adoption
of DCE 1.1:
1) Customers upgrading from a DCE 1.0 full
distribution license to a DCE 1.1 full distribution
license before October 1, 1994 may report
subsequent binary fees at the new 1.1 rates.
2) New customers who buy a DCE 1.0 full distribution
license before October 1, 1994 with a full support
agreement will receive a DCE 1.1 full distribution
license for free.
"This announcement will serve as an opportunity for
further adoption of this important enabling
technology.," said Bill Estrem, Project Leader for the
Information Architecture Group at 3M. "In addition, it
will make it even easier for vendors to make DCE
available to users at a reasonable price."
"The new pricing structure shows that OSF and its
sponsor companies are going for mass deployment of DCE
across all platforms, from personal computers to
massively parallel super computers," said Mike Guidry,
Project Leader for Architecture at Phillips Petroleum
Company.
The Open Software Foundation delivers open systems
technology with the objective of enabling people to
exploit information technology to improve the way they
do business. OSF supplies software to make information
technology easier to learn and easier to use, while
enabling various vendors' equipment to work together,
sharing applications and information across distributed
open computing environments. OSF has created a coalition
of vendors and users who work together to provide the
best available open systems technologies. Headquartered
in Cambridge, MA, with offices in Brussels, Grenoble and
Tokyo, OSF has more than 400 members worldwide.
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