On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 09:37:45AM -0500, Shawn L Johnston wrote: ... >Nope, need to learn UnixWare and dump linux. er or not. ;)
UnixWare? No way! >I wouldn't be suprised to see SuSE follow pretty soon as well, it >doesn't seem like there is money in selling retail boxes. Selling retail boxes isn't going to make money, but not selling them loses mind share. New users are much more likely to use the distributions they can get at their local CompUSA than something they have to special order. FWIW, I've noticed that our local CompUSA stores have been moving a lot of SuSE 8.x retail boxes. We buy all our SuSE Linux from CompUSA at retail which costs us about the same as buying through wholesale distributors by the time you add shipping. Another factor is that we have a ton of paid- for Linux box sets sitting here that became obsolete before we sold them. It also may provide some incentive for CompUSA to keep it in stock. Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC UUCP: camco!bill PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX: (206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (206) 236-1676 URL: http://www.celestial.com/ When the customer has beaten upon you long enough, give him what he asks for, instead of what he needs. This is very strong medicine, and is normally only required once. -- The Consultant's Curse: _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
