RE: [SAGE] to buy or not to buy service contracts

[Dennis Viner <Dennis_Viner@kgi.edu>]

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From: Dark Tachyon [mailto:darktachyon@yahoo.com]

> Oh that's cool! That might be some competition for
> MCE. Does self care include software support?

I should warn you that the price includes an academic discount, ymmv. No,
the software is an extra $3k per year for updates and a 10 user educare
developer bundle which is similar to varsity, but more expensive.

> SGI is putting another nail in their own coffin. We are
> moving the SGI services to Suns and Intels running
> linux.

Likewise. Now that Mathworks has announced they won't be providing new
releases for Matlab on Irix, I think our move will happen even faster.

Dennis Viner 
Network and Systems Administrator 
Keck Graduate Institute