Just for the record guys,
The one specific upgrade price mentioned on this thread was the same
figure I was given for a stand-alone license ($3,495). So there is, yet, no
discrepancies revealed here. I did receive another dollar figure but that was
for network licenses and that price wasn't mentioned in the thread, but it is
priced slightly higher.
The only other price mentioned was the approx. retail list price for a
new license after the upgrade path is discontinued, as proposed. That was
"approx." $11,000 (+/-$500) per license for a network license.
Sincerely,
Brad Velander
Senior PCB Designer
Northern Airborne Technology
1925 Kirschner Rd.,
Kelowna, BC, V1Y 4N7.
tel (250) 763-2329 ext. 225
fax (250) 762-3374
-----Original Message-----
From: Jon Elson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: May 17, 2005 1:45 PM
To: Joe Sapienza; Protel EDA Discussion List
Subject: [SPAM] - Re: [PEDA] Have you all heard the latest DXP upgrade
news? - Email found in subject
He's talking about discrimination. What he means is no two people pay
the same for Protel. Depending on who your salesperson is, how desperate
they are to fill their quota for the month or whatever, depending on
what software
you are using now, depending on how loudly you complain, or something like
that, you get more discounts applied to your purchase price.
I found this out a while ago, when one of the salespeople called up and
was urging
me to upgrade. Totally by accident, I mentioned some kind of magic
word, something
like "well, that is an awful lot of money, and I'm not sure what the
benefits of the
new version are....." and suddenly, we weren't on the list price page
anymore, we had
shifted onto the discount page. This was all many years ago, before
Altium, so I
have no idea whether they still work this way anymore. But, I got the
idea the whole
thing was like the Turkish bazaar or something, where you were expected
to haggle
hard, counter every offer, and compare the merchandise to something
else, as if you
really had second thoughts about spending any money there.
It was kind of a wierd experience, unlike the way most commercial software
is sold.
Jon
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