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Date:	Thu, 4 Jul 2002 15:49:47 PST7
From:	"Steven Levine" <steve53@earthlink.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: basic help

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In <005f01c2238f$85d99580$6401a8c0@eyeleicailxtzi>, on 07/04/02
at 11:19 AM, "Butch Langel" said:

>Quick question about purchasing eCS. If I bought my version of Warp 4 at
>eBay, do I qualify for upgrade price of eCS or would I have to pay full

You qualify as long as you have a licensed copy of Warp. If you look in
the Up and Running booklet, you will find a page with a picture of a
diskette. That's your license.

>price? The full price is rather steep, but I realize how expensive it is
>to produce an operating system and the resultant price charge. Like most

That's not the problem. Serentity OEM's OS/2 from IBM. IBM sets the
prices that SSI must pay them for an upgrade license or a full license.
Apparently, IBM is charging SSI almost full price for a new Warp license.
The fee IBM charges SSI for an upgrade license, which is essentially an
MCP license is much less.

FWIW, last time I looked the cost of an upgrade license for eCS was less
that the cost of the single-user upgrade license for Smartsuite, which is
one of the bundled applications. This make eCS a very good buy for
Smartsuite users, as long as you adhear to the license provisions.

Go figure. Product pricing is a strange world. In the long term, you
have to charge enough to make a profit. In the short term, there are a
lot of other factors to be considered.

Steven

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