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COMMERCIAL: The Major BBS for Linux Price Promotion
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lars Wirzenius)
Wed Mar 29 05:44:30 1995
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 1995 08:03:37 +0300
From: Lars Wirzenius <wirzeniu@cc.helsinki.fi>
To: linux-activists@niksula.hut.fi, linux-announce@vger.rutgers.edu
X-Mn-Key: announce
From: ken@gate.net (Ken Maier)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce
Subject: COMMERCIAL: The Major BBS for Linux Price Promotion
Organization: Cybergate, Inc.
Reply-To: unix@gcomm.com
Keywords: commercial, Major BBS
Approved: linux-announce@news.ornl.gov (Lars Wirzenius)
Followup-to: poster
Galacticomm debuts Linux and SCO versions of The Major BBS for UNIX;
Price promotion and two new products also unveiled
Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., March 15 -- Galacticomm, Inc. strengthened its
commitment to the UNIX environment with the introduction of Linux and SCO
versions for its online interactive platform, The Major BBS for UNIX. The
leading online software developer also unveiled a special limited-time price
promotion for its UNIX software, offering customers savings of up to 35%.
The company concluded the announcement by unveiling a new Spanish language
add-on option and an Entertainment Collection for its UNIX products.
"With our added compatibility for Linux and SCO, the vast majority of
UNIX facilities will now be able to run our software on their current
operating system," says Galacticomm's President and CEO Scott Brinker. "SCO
has a large share of the UNIX market and is the leading choice for
government agencies, while Linux is top-quality freeware with a tremendous
following among Internet users."
The Major BBS for UNIX began shipping in January with support for two
operating systems -- BSD/OS 1.1 for the PC architecture and Solaris 2.3 for
SPARC platforms. New versions are now available for the following: BSD/OS
2.0, Solaris 2.4 x86, Linux 1.1 and SCO6 ODT 3.0.
SUBSTANTIAL SPRING SAVINGS
As a limited-time promotion, Galacticomm is offering special
get-acquainted prices on all editions of The Major BBS for UNIX. A new
four-line Linux edition is only $995 during this promotion. The eight-line
versions are only $1,695, for a savings of $855. A new 16-line version is
priced at $3,195 during the promotion. Other line-counts are priced as
follows:
LICENSE DIRECT PRICE PROMOTION PRICE
32-user $7,650 $5,895
64-user $13,600 $10,895
128-user $25,500 $20,195
256-user $42,500 $36,995
TWO NEW PRODUCTS
The Major BBS for UNIX's multilingual/multiprotocol architecture can
support up to 50 simultaneous languages or graphical protocols. The Spanish
Language Add-on Option ($295) takes advantage of this capability, and allows
users to choose Spanish as the language for messages and prompts they see on
the system.
The Entertainment Collection ($495) transforms The Major BBS for UNIX
into a complete entertainment system. The package includes a suite of text
adventure, ANSI-graphic and teleconference games. The Action Teleconference
enhances the teleconference with action verbs for users.
Galacticomm is a privately held Fort Lauderdale corporation. The
company has been the leading developer of multi-user communications hardware
and online multi-user software since 1985. Galacticomm products are
available from your favorite Galacticomm reseller or by calling Galacticomm
direct at (800) 328-1128 or (305) 583-5990, outside the U.S. and Canada.
The UNIX division can be reached via e-mail at unix@gcomm.com. For a
hands-on demonstration of The Major BBS for UNIX, telnet to Galacticomm's
UNIX Demo System at unix.gcomm.com. Galacticomm's World-Wide Web site on
the Internet can be reached by pointing your browser to
http://www.gcomm.com.
