SCO Pricing

[Robert den Hartog]

The company I work for recently bought SCO Unix.  Just last week we also
decicded to get the TCP/IP for the same, so we checked the price list;
SCO TCP/IP $1800.00 (US$900).  But wait, thats only the runtime.
TCP/IP development, $1200.00 (US$600).  Well we were stuck, so we forked
out $3000.00, and got 4 disks and 1 binder of manuals.

Is it normal SCO policy to sell the TCP/IP in two parts for _so_ much?

$1200.00 seems a lot for a bunch of .h files and 1 library (the disk was
less than 1/2 full!) Oh, and 1/2 a binder of documentation.


Bit of an aside speil follows, it may amuse some folks out there...

The people I work for decided to go with SCO for the support, however the local
agents (not SCO themselves) are the biggest bunch of idiots I've ever seen (all
their support is done via fax machine to the US, that's once you finally get
them to understand what your problem is. (I'll save those stories for now))

However they outdone themselves with the invoice that arrived today:
- I personally collected the goods on the 6 June  (it was ordered from the US,
  the agents hold _no_ stock!)  The invoice had a $12.00 local cartage charge
- The invoice was dated 31 May.  (NZ standard terms are payment by the 20th of
  the month following the date on the invoice.)  What sort of cheek is that
  (without concent from the purchasor I think it's in fact illegal in NZ.)
Needless to say the invoice has been returned, sans cheque.

Sorry to bore you, but it's interesting watching what companies in trouble
try to do to save themselves.  (Rumors travel quickly in a small country, and
are rarely wrong.)

BTW, if you're wondering, this machine is running Esix.
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