From: root@devnull.dus.novell.com (Peter D. Bartok)
Subject: Re: the SFT III saga...
Organization: Novell, Inc.
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 18:14:50 GMT

Fund@RELAY.PROTEON.COM writes:

>>>Iam starting the SFT III discussion again because a customer of us is
>>>jumping for it and it still seems to be a NT product (Not There).
>>>First of all: I have heard various prices, In the US it should cost
>>>about $16.000, Novell Benelux (belgium/netherlands/luxembourg) gave
>>>us a price of , Is this for 1 server or for both (the primary and the
>>>secondary)??
>>>mailbox@zeus.ice.nl (Henno Keers)                     Zeus mailbox

>>   $18995 US for the both copies.  Only 250 user is available now.

>>   No MAC or UNIX support at this time.  4.0 will have it when it
>>   comes out and 3.1x will be retrofitted to support these name
>>   spaces in the future.

>>   In addition to the software you will need a pair of 100 MByte/sec
>>   cards and a cable to connect them up.

>>   Thomas Conrad (512) 836-1935  Europe # +49-211-5048781
>>   and
>>   Plaintree Systems (613) 831-3283

>>   have certifed cards.  Expect to spend in the $3000-$4000 for the set.

>>>I don't know about the prices, they might be right, but as far as I know,
>>>SFT III is called a "controlled release", means you have to do some paperwork
>>>if you wanna buy it and Novell checks whether you can get it.

>>>Peter
>>>EMail : pbartok@novell.com

>   Seems to me, that if your credit is good, and you have $19K burning a
>   hole in your pockets, Novell is not going to turn down to many of
>   these babies.  Does that seem reasonable to you?

I'll try to explain more detailed :

Novell wants to be sure that the SFT-III baby is working really fine before
everybody goes to the shop, buys it and might get problems. So therefore they
created a "controlled release", means you fill out some papers and describe
why you need it, what environment you have and so on. To get these papers you
have to contact Novell directly in the US and if you're in Europe you can go
to your distributor.
If you need SFT-III only for playing around i can imagine you wont get it, 
would make no sense.

The problem is that not all products are running on SFT-III, I think, Netware
for SAA is one, but I'm not really sure.

So, as a closing statement : SFT-III EXISTS ! and is also available !

-The above statements are my personal opinion and nothing official from Novell-

If there are further questions I tell me and I try to contact our SFT-III guru.

Greetings from Germany

Peter D.

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