Denis St-Amand wrote:
>
> Here in Canada, you have to pay a "Return to support" "penalty".  A
> customer recently asked to upgrade from 4.0 to 5.0 or 5.5.  He would
> have to pay software support for the last 18 months "backward" + the
> next 12 months to get new releases.  On their 922LX, it would cost
> around 9000 CAN$.  I don't call that cheap.  They could get another
> 922LX with 5.0 for probably less than that...
>
> I don't talk for/against HP.
>
> Hope it helps.
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> Denis St-Amand ([log in to unmask])
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> If you look at the stars at night, and you see one moving much
> faster than all the others, You know who is driving it !!!
>                      Remember Ayrton Senna da Silva, 1960-1994
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>

In another post to this newsgroup, I asked a similar question for an HP3000
running an
ancient version of MPE-V.  As we are located in the US, how do I get the
upgrade policy
for our situation?

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Thanks,
Michael W. Ellis
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