Re: Major interview

["malonowa" <malonowa@wanadoo.fr>]

----- Original Message -----
From: Harry McGregor <micros@azstarnet.com>
To: <seul-edu@seul.org>
Sent: samedi 4 septembre 1999 04:30
Subject: Re: Major interview


> I might be going out on a limb here (I am a college student, so money is
> not exaclty pleantiful, though most goes into my computers, since I still
> live at home...), but I would pay $100USD-300USD for a site license (must
> be non version specific, ie, include linux, windows, mac versions (if
> available) for a GOOD piece of software for grades K, 1, 2.
>
> I might be able to get the money through the school, but at least for the
> first one, I would pay it myself.
>
> We are currently using three programs that they already had site licenses
> for (Windows/Mac programs), under wine.
>
> I think $300 per site (Largest high school here is 3,000 students, and the
> elementary school is about 700 students) is a very good price for an
> educational site license.  This is what we paid for StarOffice 5.1, that
> included the win 95/98/NT version, the linux version, the os/2 version,
> MacOS PPC (4.0, though 5 should be out soon, and is covered under the site
> license), and solaris (x86 and sparc) versions.
>
> BTW for MacOS support I would _NEED_ 68020 and above support.  Out of the
> 100+ macs we have, only 7 are PPC, and most of the othres are LC/LCII/and
> some LCIIIs.
>
Where I'm concerned personally, I'd insist that there was not site licence
needed for Linux versions of the commercial software that I'd do. :)

Roman.