On Tue, 2003-09-16 at 16:33, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: > John Wilson schrieb am Tue, 16 Sep 2003 12:41:03 -0700: > > > My assumption is that either the entry into bankruptcy protection > > messed up their distrubtion channels and McMillian pulled back or that > > someone just dropped the ball in North America. > > Sorry to say, but: no. > I took the freedom to forward Anne Wilson's first message in this > thread, starting with: > > > I have moved to a new thread, in the hope that someone at > > MandrakeSoft, or at least, someone in touch with MandrakeSoft, might > > see it. > > I forwarded it to Ga�l Duval, co-founder of MandrakeSoft, creator of > Mandrake Linux, responsible for communications. I hope this is > "MandrakeSoft" enough for you. > > Here's what he answered: > > <quote> > In short: > > The overall Linux retail market (all distributions) in the USA has > decreased by around 20% by year since year 2000. One of the reasons for > this decline is that most users now have access to a high-bandwitdh > access, so they prefer to download the ISOs. As a result we started to > lose money on the US retail, so we agreed to stop it with our US > distributor. > > At the same time, online services and MandrakeStore revenues are > exploding, so it's certainly a better business model than pushing just > one or two products in shelves. For instance, we sell maybe a dozen > MandrakeSoft products on Store, it would be impossible to do in the > retail. And we're thinking about selling "dematerialized products" for > download (all pack ISOs for instance), which is really a more powerful > business model. > > Anyway, if we feel that the retail market would start to grow up again, > we would certainly consider to address it again. We're also aware that > being on shelves is good for mindshare. > > Regards, > > Ga�l. > <unquote> > > I can see his point. > > wobo > If you ask me (and no one with any sense would) this really sounds like an interesting opportunity. I wonder what the total sales just in best buy and CompUSA would be....
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