This is csna.21.06 in view mode; [Up]
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce From: Conrad_Geiger@NeXT.COM Subject: NeXT Announces Educational Pricing for NEXTSTEP Academic Bundle for Educational Community Organization: Next Announcements Approved: sanguish@digifix.com Hello, Great news! The following pricing was announced yesterday by NeXT for the higher education community. Conrad Geiger International NEXTSTEP User Group Program _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ News FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE NeXT ANNOUNCES EDUCATIONAL PRICING FOR NEXTSTEP ACADEMIC BUNDLE FOR EDUCATIONAL COMMUNITY SAN FRANCISCO, May 18, 1993 - NeXT Inc. today announced its educational pricing and distribution partnership for the NEXTSTEP Academic Bundle for Education. The NEXTSTEP Academic Bundle consists of the full NEXTSTEP Release 3.1 for Intel processors product and the NEXTSTEP Developer Release 3.1 CD-ROM. The NEXTSTEP Academic Bundle is available for purchase by educational institutions (K-12 and Higher Education) and their students, faculty, and staff for academic (non-commercial) use only. This product includes the full user documentation, a catalog of NEXTSTEP Education and Support products available from NeXT, a Third-party Demo CD-ROM, and on-line Developer documentation. "The educational community is NeXT's oldest market and partner, and hundreds of colleges and universities have adopted NEXTSTEP as a core teaching and research solution. NeXT remains committed to enabling educators to use NEXTSTEP to promote educational innovation, " said Dr. Ronald Weissman, NeXT's Director of Corporate Marketing. "Making the Academic Bundle available to educators at such a low price is another sign of NeXT's ongoing commitment to the educational community." Pricing The NEXTSTEP Academic Bundle is available to educational institutions, faculty, staff and students at a suggested list price (single quantity) of $249.00 (US$). The suggested commercial price for the NEXTSTEP User and Developer products outside of the educational community is $2,790 (US$). Distribution and Availability The NEXTSTEP Academic Bundle will be sold to Higher Education customers through campus computer resellers, including college and university bookstores and academic computing centers. Selected campus computer resellers will be authorized to resell the NEXTSTEP Academic Bundle within the K-12 academic community. The NEXTSTEP Academic Bundle is being distributed to campus computer resellers in the U.S., Canada, and Mexico through NACSCORP, a national distributor of educationally priced software and peripheral products. NACSCORP will begin taking orders from campus computer resellers on May 25, 1993. The NEXTSTEP Academic Bundle will begin shipping on June 15, 1993.
These are the contents of the former NiCE NeXT User Group NeXTSTEP/OpenStep software archive, currently hosted by Marcel Waldvogel and Netfuture.ch.