On Mon Sep 22, 2003 at 10:11:37AM -0700, James Sparenberg wrote: > > > One side, > > > > > > This statement by RH was made before the release of 9.... 9 is in > > > the stores all that was dropped was the less profitable high end boxed > > > sets. (those costing $100.00 US +) the lower end boxed sets are still > > > on the shelves. > > > > Ahhh... ok, thanks for the clarification, James. So they "cheap" boxes are > > still being produced, just not the more expensive ones. > > > > Interesting. > > > It seems that the low end boxes move. The high end boxes mostly get > back routed through the channel. (the go to the stores, they come > back.) It seems thought there is room for one more "version" a disk > only set. Cheaper to produce, and a lot of people (a lot not all) don't > need / want the book. Advantage here. The book is, the most expensive > part to produce. Heck include a "gift Certificate" for the book through > the mail or just put it on a documentation disk that can be read/printed > from winders.
Agreed on the book part and, IIRC, it comes on the CDs or at least it's available online. Here's an idea tho... I was recently in a local bookstore that caters to *NIX junkies and saw some Yellowdog packages there. The cool thing is, tho, that they came in a regular DVD case, just like a movie. I'm wondering if there is a place for the powerpack (DVD-only) being produced in this way. No manual, no CDs, just the one DVD and your registration card. -- MandrakeSoft Security; http://www.mandrakesecure.net/ Online Security Resource Book; http://linsec.ca/ "lynx -source http://linsec.ca/vdanen.asc | gpg --import" {FE6F2AFD : 88D8 0D23 8D4B 3407 5BD7 66F9 2043 D0E5 FE6F 2AFD}
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