Applies to: Kermit 95 version 2.1 for Microsoft Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP and IBM OS/2. Effective: 16 February 2003
All prices, terms, and conditions are subject to change.
All prices are in US dollars.
Kermit 95 2.1 is available for Microsoft Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows NT (4.0 or later), Windows 2000, and Windows XP, Intel and compatible PC platforms only, and IBM OS/2. Kermit 95 is not compatible with Windows 3.x, Win32s, Windows CE, or Pocket PC, and is no longer available for Alpha or PowerPC platforms.
Unit
Quantity Discount Price
1-4 0% 75.00
5-9 5% 71.25
10-24 10% 67.50
25-49 15% 63.75
50+ 20% 60.00
CLICK HERE for the retail order form.
Individual copies are also available from the publisher and various retailers, listed on the main Kermit 95 page. Each of these sources sets its own price. To obtain a reseller discount for shrinkwrapped retail copies, you should purchase them direct from the publisher, Manning Software.
Individual copies of Kermit 95 are also available for discounted sale and electronic delivery (no physical package) from e-academy.com.
Minimum quantity: 100.
Minimum extension: 100.
The licensee is entitled to make the licensed number of copies of the software for internal use (or, under terms of Section V, for customers or clients).
A bulk right-to-copy license consists of:
All users within (or clients of) the licensed organization share the same registration and serial number. The license covers employees (and in the case of academic institutions, also students) of the licensed organization, including contractors during the period of their contract. The Discount column shows the discount against the single-copy retail price of $75.
Unit
Quantity Discount Price
100-249 86.67% 10.00
250-499 88.67% 8.50
500-999 90.40% 7.20
1000-2499 92.00% 6.00
2500-4999 93.33% 5.00
5000-9999 94.67% 4.00
10000-19999 95.60% 3.30
20000-39999 95.93% 3.05
Any number of copies (100 or more) may be purchased by paying the unit price per copy appropriate to the range.
"Site" or "unlimited" licenses are not available. To achieve freedom from copy counting and license administration, simply purchase sufficient licenses to cover the maximum expected number of users.
The licensee must assume responsibility of preventing all manner of external access to the software, including, but not limited to, unauthorized redistribution of the software in any form by employees, or placing of the software on file servers, ftp servers, or Web pages that are accessible from outside the licensed organization.
The licensed organization must provide technical support to its users, and may, in turn, obtain technical support from Columbia University through a designated single point of contact.
If support lapses, and the licensee wishes to renew it, this may be done by:
Academic Site Licenses are no longer offered effective 15 February 2003. Academic institutions must now use the Bulk Right-to-Copy license, which requires copy counting. The remainder of this section is for historical reference only.
CLICK HERE for the academic site
license order form.
(But read the following material first.)
An academic site license consists of:
Effective 1 January 2002, there are two kinds of academic site-licenses:
Kermit 95 academic site licenses are available at the rates listed below. An academic site license entitles all students, faculty, and staff at the licensed institution to individual, non-transferable use of Kermit 95, with no copy counting required, as long as they are students at or employed by the institution. End-user technical support must be furnished by the institution. Technical support to the instition is furnished through a single technical point of contact with the Kermit Project at Columbia University.
For any single college or university:
Annual Billing Lifetime
First year: $ 2000 5000
Subsequent years: $ 1000 0
For a large university system, such as a statewide system (e.g. all of SUNY):
Annual Billing Lifetime
First year: $ 10000 25000
Subsequent years: $ 5000 0
An annual billing license can be converted to a lifetime license for a one-time fee of $2000 (single college or university) or $10000 (university system).
All prices are in US dollars and apply worldwide. Rates are subject to adjustment. Prior Kermit 95 purchases -- shrink-wrap or bulk -- are not creditable towards the academic site license.
The institution must assume responsibility for preventing all manner of external access to the software, including, but not limited to, redistribution of the software in any form outside the institution by students, faculty, or staff, or placing of the software on file servers, ftp servers, or Web pages that are accessible from outside the institution.
Bulk licenses are not intended for single-copy retail distribution. Individual end users must receive the fully documented and supported shrink wrapped retail package. Redistribution of bulk license copies is appropriate in a consulting, contracting, bundling, or embedding framework.
If the licensee has purchased shrink-wrapped copies for resale or redistribution, then each end user registers each individual copy of the software using the serial number provided. If the lincensee has purchased a bulk right-to-copy license, then a single serial number and registration applies to all copies.
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