Well,
Mandrake are you listening ?
Create a new company called MandrakePC or Lothar(?) or Narda(?) owned by
Mandrake. So if the Mandrake PC does not work it does not bring down the
whole company...
Start to sell a Mandrake PC in France, then in Europe. The market there is
more receptive to a non-american supplier, then do the same in US... At the
moment the Euro is so low, that building anything in europe is cheaper on
the export market than US or Asia products...
And please hire a crasy designer to make the box, and do not respect the
standard PC format.... Make a box very small like the IPac, a rack, and a
bigger box with IDE Raid1.
I buy here in Fiji, MGEUPS made in France cheaper than the APC products...
Cheers...
Gary Lawrence Murphy wrote:
> Why not be a hardware manufacturer?
>
> Well, in a word, "Shipping". The shipping of a full PC is a
> nightmare, and to do so internationally is twice the bother. Dell
> does it, as does Cobalt, but Dell is huge and the other Linux-iron
> vendors are not doing very well.
>
> This is tangental to my proposal, but what I would prefer is to do
> what Microsoft has done with their "White Box" program --- despite the
> name, this is not just "Windows on a generic PC", but a trademark name
> for a specific set of hardware components which can be reliably
> assembled. It's a recipe for a hardware box which you can license to
> franchises who can obtain parts locally, and then also pool community
> resources to gain discounts from hardware suppliers for flashy
> components like an elegant case or a Mandrake keyboard.
>
> --
> Gary Lawrence Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> TeleDynamics Communications Inc
> Business Innovations Through Open Source Systems: http://www.teledyn.com
> "Computers are useless. They can only give you answers."(Pablo Picasso)
