Thread: Nearly Officially Official: cRIO Control System To Be Reused
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Re: Nearly Officially Official: cRIO Control System To Be Reused
As Greg pointed out, the excessively large figure would result from buying everything you needed to use a cRIO like you would with the new control system, assuming no discounts whatsoever. NI heavily discounts software for academic institutions, however. To the tune of 50-75%, so it wouldn't be quite that prohibitively expensive for a team to buy everything, provided they convinced the school district to buy it and the team provided the funds. This also goes to art's comment on NI's motives. They "lose" gobs and gobs of money every year selling software to universities, but I'm certain they pretty easily recoup those costs from convincing less programming savvy mechies and chemies that LabView is the way to go.
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