PRICES SOAR!

[Tom Baas]

Steve,

Let me just say  ..That's the Business world for you.  They sold their
Goods to the university system to try to get the university environment
educated and familiarized with their product.  Then when you are locked 
in to their product they give you the one..two punch.  That's how big
businesses get big.  Nothing unethical....just imoral.  That's business
ethics....human imorality.

What you do is to learn to beat them at their own game.  Buy their products
when the prices are down and learn not to rely on them for support.
Keep in contact with their competition and be ready to switch over on the
dime.

It's not only AT&T it's all the other big guys too.  IBM products for example
are no better than anybody elses.  They have just brain washed people into
thinking that their products are the only ones.  They sell you a machine
and the rest is up to you.  You are no longer their friend until the next
time you want another computer product.  In the mean time they tell you
that there is no such thing as another computer than IBM.  You are stuck
because only IBM products are compatable.(except for the pc's -they were
outsmarted in that area. So they try OS/2 but it hasn't been successful
because their competition is raring to go with OS/2 compatability.)

At least UNIX is an open system environment and thus to some extent you
can switch from one UNIX system to another without too much trouble.