I'm going to start a co that builds cheap boxen with debian. I have what I believe a creative marketing scheme. My target market is mid to low income families.
Contact me if you have an interest. I'm ready for some serious planning/implementation. NatePuri Certified Law Student & Debian GNU/Linux Monk McGeorge School of Law [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ompages.com On Wed, 3 Mar 1999, mike shupp wrote: > On Wed, 3 Mar 1999, Ed Cogburn wrote: > > > Like George Bonser has said previously, I think the only way that > > Debian is going to grow its market share better than its currently > > growing is for the creation of a commercial company which adopts > > Debian as its base distribution. This company can provide > > corporate support to enhance Debian's position in the corporate > > world, and improve the install and maintenance of the system, by > > adding new software which isn't a priority for current Debian > > developers.... > > I dunno. There's a lot of people who would like to find out about > Linux, but aren't prepared to bet the whole farm on it sight unseen. > They'll pay say 1100 bucks for a white box PII machine with Windows 98 > installed without a qualm however (I did anyhow a couple months ago). > Would they demur at paying say 1115 dollars for the same machine with > Win 98 on one partition and Debian on another? Of course not-- and > some dealers would even think "WINDOWS AND LINUX!!!" worthy of > advertising. > > I don't see any great problem getting Debian onto a million new boxes, > in other words, if someone takes the trouble to assure PC sellers > that installing Debian is simple and easy and exceptionally cheap. > There'd be a potential problem dealing with newby customers who had > Debian on their systems and weren't quite hip on the subject of > Linux, but that's another issue. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Mike Shupp > California State University, Northridge > Graduate Student, Dept. of Anthropology > http://www.csun.edu/~ms44278/index.htm > > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > >
