On Friday 19 Sep 2003 1:07 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Friday 19 Sep 2003 11:39 am, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: > > After he sold the first 20 Mandrake 9.1 PowerPacks he could not get > > any more from his wholesaler. He told me that they told him to wait > > for a couple of weeks. He refrained because "after a couple of > > weeks it's not new anymore and people who'd bought will have > > downloaded the stuff. They want it now, not in a couple of weeks." > > Which brings us back again to the question as to whether downloads > should be available as quickly as they are at present. > Idealogically, yes, but in terms of income, maybe not.
Which would be fine if MandrakeStore was capable of delivering in a timely manner. But from what I've read on these lists it isn't and it doesn't. In a wider view I can see that MDK doesn't want to enter any huge cash-flow situations at the moment, no matter what the projected profit. Added to which, if they can't produce quickly enough for their own orders, what chance have they got supplying Walmart et al? They would have to invest in massively improved production capabilities that their auditors would probe very deeply. There must be an issue of trust between them and the big chains if they have failed to produce the goods once before, which auditors would view as risk. -- Richard Urwin
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