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Re: OS/2 Warp deal with Universities? Facts anyone?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Conroy Lee)
Tue Nov 1 07:28:36 1994
Date: Tue, 1 Nov 1994 07:28:10 -0500
From: Conroy Lee <wanderer@panix.com>
To: os2partners@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: <392jkm$5io@nuscc.nus.sg>
Cc:
anyone know if any such thing exists in the US that nobody knows about?
:)
In article <392jkm$5io@nuscc.nus.sg> you write:
>Mark Richard Shuttleworth (shtmar04@sonnenberg.uct.ac.za) wrote:
>: Hi, all,
>
>: Rumour has it that IBM Australia has set up deals with a number of
>: Universities, giving students free access to Warp.
>
>: I believe they give the Uni a CD, and the students can make disk images free
>: of charge, they just don't get the manuals.
>
>: I'm going to try and convince the South African IBM reps to do the same, and
>: I need evidence that this is really happening in other parts of the world. I
>: have an appointment with the MD of the local company on Thursday, and would
>: appreciate some hard facts...
>
>: Thanks for any info!
>
>: Mark
>
>: PS - hey, maybe we could get DevCon thrown in as well!
>
>Students with an internet ID can get the cdroms of Warp at
>S$39 (no docs) before end of November. You can bet that
>many (I mean in the hundreds) will take advantage of this
>really nice offer. They can also make diskcopies for free
>but I think most people will prefer to pay for the cdroms.
>This is in Singapore where OS/2 has very low (so far) penetration
>in the SOHO market. This will (already is) change in the very
>near future. 1.5S$ = 1 US$. Warp is selling in shops for S$188
>(with docs) since Oct 29.
