Re: New i5 Express Models

[Pete Helgren <Pete@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Jon,

Wasn't aware of the disparity.  If you want, I'll open another shop in 
Canada and send you a 515   :-)   (My 17 year old wants to go to Canada 
for his 18th birthday [Hmmm, why would he want to do that?] so I could 
drive it up to you.....)

Pete

Jon Paris wrote:
> Which would be great if I needed all that horsepower - but I don't.  
>
>  >> I haven't seen the full pricer, but theoretically a development machine
> for 5 users and the 50% developer discount would come in at around $5500.
>
> And that's the rub Pete.  If I could get that I'd buy one tomorrow.  But I
> can't get the developer discount.  _If_ I was based in the U.S. it is just
> possible that I could sufficiently bend the current rules to (sort of)
> qualify - but I'm based in Canada and my experience with the BP program here
> is that it is pretty lousy.  In fact I know Canadian software houses who
> opened US development "offices" to qualify for the US program.  Not only do
> we pay a premium on the hardware cost, but we don't get the free software
> that is available to BPs in the US.  That just adds to the cost.
>
> Just to give you another example - a while back they had a special where
> they reinstated the 1% lease and offered reasonably configured 270 models in
> the US for about $11K.  They ran the same program in Canada but slapped a
> Cdn$25K minimum on it!  The US minimum was $7,000!
>
> I'm told by colleagues elsewhere in the world that I should be happy because
> the BP programs are even worse there than here in Canada.
>
>
> Jon Paris
> Partner400
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> www.Partner400.com 
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