Giant Price Hikes for System V Release 4

[Dave Remien]

In article <3001 at sugar.uu.net> karl at sugar.uu.net (Karl Lehenbauer) writes:
>...spoke with a salesperson at Bell Technologies yesterday and was told
>that System V/4 is going to cost about $1300 and there isn't likely to
>be an upgrade for V/3 people........ [etc.]

I talked with a sales guy (who's been truly helpful in the past) last
week, and it's V/3.2 that's coming out in a couple of weeks, and will
cost about the above figure to upgrade to, assuming you have the
software development environment (S.D.E.; don't we all? :-)). This is
apparently because AT&T considers V/3.2 to be a major upgrade (why the
hell is it a 3.1 to 3.2 upgrade, then, rather than to 4.0?). Maybe they
need the bucks to help pay for trying to overwhelm OSF (:-).



>Anyone want to work on a PD Unix clone?  (2/3 :-)

It's becoming a real temptation.

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