On 17 January 2011 10:59, Jon Spriggs <j...@sprig.gs> wrote: > > Less taxes, oh and paying the person who's installing Linux. And the HR > person who's making sure they're doing everything right by the person. And > electricity, to, you know, keep the building running while they're doing the > installations. Oh, Buildings? Rent, council tax, etc. Heaven forbid? That > £50/machine profit suddenly becomes £10/machine loss, if you're lucky, and > probably a LOT worse. > > Sadly, I made the same sort of mistake in my GCSE Business Studies > coursework 17 years ago, except my genius plan was to build custom-made > machines from parts sourced from shops. The fact of the matter is that > simply going in and asking for 50 machines, while it might have worked for > Michael Dell (who did something similar with IBM to start out), isn't going > to cut it in today's 1/2% margin markets >
Okay, so you're now talking different things... because you're suggesting that sourcing the parts, assembling them etc. costs less than £250 (including VAT)?? Do you know this? If not, why don't these people get the machines pre-assembled from PC World or whatever? Probably find they'd do them for £200, so that's a potential £100 mark-up AND they don't have to bother doing any assembly. You can automate it, because you know the specification of the hardware. "Installing Linux" will merely be a 5-minute disc image copy, hardly resource-intensive is it? Or have I missed something?? Sean
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