RE: Platinum ERwin: Cost

OUCH! -----Original Message----- From: Arvin Meyer [mailto:a@m.com] Sent: Monday, April 26, 1999 1:57 PM To: informix-list@iiug.org Subject: Re: Platinum ERwin: Cost I'm sorry, but if a university can pay the high salaries that professors and especially administrators get, and charge the tuition and fees they do, then they most certainly can pay the price for the tools they use. If ERwin does not find it beneficial to distribute their product at a high discount, then so be it. It is quite different to deep discount the software a student buys. I suggest you find willing alumnae to purchase it for you, or ask your faculty to take a cut in pay. Cross-posting your whining spam across the database newsgroups, just doesn't cut it with me. I reserve my charitable contributions for those that genuinely need it. ----- Arvin Meyer onsite@esinet.net Patrick Lanphier wrote in message <3724A77E.A35CCF2B@psu.edu>... >We here at The Pennsylvania State University would like to use ERwin for our CACTUS project and then >go on to teach database modeling with ERwin in the future, however, we can not afford to even buy >two copies of ERwin at $2865.00 with their large discount of 18% (just kidding) and maintenance of >$695.00 on each license which I believe they said could not be discounted. We would also like to >use the Modelmart with a price tag of $9,500 with it's 5% discount. This comes to a total price tag >of $16,620 which is unreasonable in academia. Many of you would probably think this discounting >would be reasonable, however, in academia this is unacceptable, if you would like to see your >children learn the latest tools before they get out of college so that they can have a step up in >getting the job they desire in this field then we can not allow this to happen. If you have a >contact at Platinum that could truly assist me or would like to contact Platinum yourself, it would >be greatly appreciated. > >Patrick Lanphier >Advanced Information Technologies >The Pennsylvania State University