On Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 06:49:23AM +0530, zohar wrote: > 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.
That can be said about every distribution, not just SuSE and Mandrake. SuSE doesn't seem to be abandoning the desktop market, nor is Mandrake; Red Hat on the other hand has made explicit statements saying that the desktop will remain dominated by Windows. (That having been said, I do not mean to imply that Red Hat will disappear from store shelves.) > 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. Even Microsoft doesn't do all that much mass media advertising. A couple of big events when a new version of the Windows virus is propagated, and then media-wise there is silence. I think you are comparing the hardware advertising with software advertising, which is like comparing apples with oranges. _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
