The thing is they are selling the retail pack but are not after the pranks of marketing that they were doing before to sell to individual user.
Ex. Suse is giving this things that its normal advertising is done by seeing the stickers of your machine and pin on your ballhat but have you seen them advertising vigorously like big names like IBM, HP, Compaq, Microsoft, Seagate, etc. Keeping a dedicated men/women for support and a dedicated server to make the user list working though seem to be a bit costlier for an individual user but it's a cheap deal in comparison of running an advertising campaign. To the point, this linux resellers are in the retail market but sees more stuff in the server market and wants to make big bucks there. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Lee Sent: Sunday, February 03, 2002 9:23 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: <OT> Fwd: SuSE noshow at LWCE NY 2002 Tyler Regas wrote: > > Don't you think that's pretty cynical? I happen to think that Mandrake has > a very strong community connection. Hell, they post their nightly builds on > Cooker, FCS! > > At 11:44 PM 2/2/2002, you wrote: > >Mostly SUSE and mandrake are going for servers with partners like IBM > >and such big names so they are trying to ignore the normal user and > >marketing of them to big firms is only done with the partner >>Believe you have SuSe and Mandrake confused with Caldera. I have sitting on the retail bookshelf boxed sets of Mandrake 8.1 and SuSe 7.2 for the desktop computer. Suse even included a sheet of stickers to plaster my box with and a pin to jam in my ballhat.Mandrake is running a Mandrake Club users list that periodically receives info from the company of interest to the common user and tech advice from other users. Lee > > --- > Tyler Regas > PHM Editor-in-Chief > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > www.pdahandyman.com > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-users mailing list - http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users > Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL. _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL. _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
