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Technology Stocks : All About Sun Microsystems -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Steve Lee who wrote (30389)	4/9/2000 5:53:00 PM
From: rudedog	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

Steve - correct about OEM not being able to use an upgrade, but the rationale is pretty simple - if it's going out on a new machine, it's obviously not an upgrade. The reason I questioned your statement is that as recently as last November, I attended a briefing for what was described as the "Microsoft OEM System Builder program". Although firm pricing was not yet available, the guidance was that small OEMs and VARs would be able to get Win2K server for $750 in quantity 3 through the DSP program, with 5 CALs. You are suggesting that OEMs can buy Win2K server for less than an end user can buy the upgrade. This is counter to every previous pricing scheme that MSFT has done, and also counter to the presentation they did in November. I will admit that I have not looked into Win2K server pricing in a while, as I have no particular reason to do so... but I'll see if I can get some information next week from some of the folks I know in the OEM world, and see if they will give me a feel for what the volume pricing is.