RE: Platinum ERwin: Cost

I suppose you've checked into their academic partner program? http://www.platinum.com/partners/pp_alli.htm -----Original Message----- From: Patrick Lanphier [mailto:planphier@psu.edu] Sent: Monday, April 26, 1999 1:51 PM To: informix-list@iiug.org Subject: Platinum ERwin: Cost 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