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Date:      Thu, 05 Dec 1996 11:35:33 -0800
From:      Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>
To:        Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>
Cc:        "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>, chat@freefall.freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libc/net getservent.c 
Message-ID:  <199612051935.LAA18582@rah.star-gate.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 05 Dec 1996 12:09:33 MST." <199612051909.MAA17289@rocky.mt.sri.com> 

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So where is the evaluation copy for BSD/FreeBSD? 8)

	Amancio

>From The Desk Of Nate Williams :
> Jordan K. Hubbard writes:
> > > Jordan K. Hubbard writes:
> > > >   Everyone please call ParaSoft today and say "I will buy 57 copies of
> > > >   Insure++ tomorrow, but first I want a FreeBSD version." :-)
> > > 
> > > How much is it?
> > 
> > Dunno, that's sort of a question I never asked since I figured
> > it was a moot point (for now) in any case.  I did talk to their
> > marketing guy who said two interesting things:
> > 
> > 1. They port to new platforms for a fee of $250K and did the BSD/OS
> >    port because BSDI did, in fact, pay them $250K
> 
> Ouch!
> 
> > 2. While I was gagging at this and stating unequivocably that even if we
> >    had $250K to spend, it would NOT be spent on paying an ISV for a port,
> >    he quickly pointed out that in this particular case there were some
> >    "big customers" who used both BSD/OS and FreeBSD and were making quackin
g
> >    noises about a FreeBSD version, so there might be room for more creative
> >    financing in this case.
> 
> Interesting...
> 
> > So maybe it really is a good time to start calling them up and asking for
> > the FreeBSD version.  www.parasoft.com is unreachable for me right now
> > so I can't really say any more than this.
> 
> I couldn't find any pricing information on their site, but FreeBSD was
> mentioned as supported. :)
> 
> http://www.parasoft.com/insure/compare/features.htm
> 
> Cut-n-paste...
> 
>        Platform Availability
> 
> Platform               Insure++   Purify 
> BSD / Free BSD         Yes        No 
> 
> 
> 
> Nate





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