On Wed, 2003-09-17 at 06:00, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: > On Wednesday 17 September 2003 14:18, ed tharp wrote: > > yes,,, but it still seems to me a gold mine for some entrepreneur who > > can put it together to be a "hands off distribution contractor" where > > the distribution and printing of the product are taken off MDKsofts > > hands, and done by someone with as much expertise in CD and booklet > > distribution and logistics as MDKsoft has at creating a great OS and > > Distribution. > > I > > I doubt that! > IIRC Red Hat too has stopped giving priority to boxed sets in the shops. > The reason is it takes quite a bit of time to print cd's, boxes and manuals > after which the physical distribution takes time too. > By the time the boxed sets hit the shops they're already outdated. > Nobody in their right mind would invest in that.....the only profit as stated > is "visibility" which can be gotten a lot cheaper and more effective IMHO. > > Good luck, > HarM
Harm, Whereas you could well be right. You wouldn't know it here. Compusa now has a Linux "aisle" dominated by RH and SuSE box sets Fry's has put RH both in the aisle and on an endcap (which by the way was the way they sold MDK up through 7.2) The key seems to be the 3 disk sets as far as a sales leader goes. Why? Getting people to do an impulse buy of a 30 dollar (roughly) set is a lot easier than the 100 dollar version. But still the problem in the US is that when you mention open source people thing Red Hat (and as a FreeBSD user this is a real sore spot, FreeBSD isn't Linux. *grin*) Doing things like LinuxWorld or Comdex in the US isn't that important for a distro. But visibility in the market place is. James
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