Every vendor is free to have what ever pricing structure they want.
Many choose to follow the HP tier structure, or perhaps did at one time.
Others have or or less tiers.

Recently I priced upgrading from a 977 to a 979-200. For many of
the software vendors I use, there was no differance. Even though a
979-200 has more power than a 989, it remained in the lower price queue.
Others charged more because I added a second processor.

Still other vendors have moved strictly to a user based fee. 50 users,
any computer, same price.

Within price tiers, there is also a great differance between vendors.
One had its products priced at $5000, $6000, and $7000 for three different
mid-level price tiers, where another was more like $5000, $10000 and $20000.
Some charge extra per cpu, others don't care. Basically, you will need a
price
quote from each and every software vendor you deal with.


-----Original Message-----
From: Gary Sielaff [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2000 3:30 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: [HP3000-L] Conflicting reports.


I am getting conflicting reports on what tier the 928 and 929
belong to.  HP (telesales) told me they are both tier 3 or 320 what
ever that means.  Cognos says 928 is a 320 and 929 is a 340.
I.E. 928 cognos upgrade from my 937 is 4k and the 929 cognos
upgrade from my 937 is 24k.
Can anyone shed a little more light on this?
Mystified in Moses Lake
Gary