Re: Linux Demo Day

[Paul Sims <nospam [at] psims.free-online.co.uk>]

One day soon maybe, but for now at least you can walk into Software
Warehouse buy the stuff off the shelf and at a reasonable price. It would
be very interesting to do a price comparison between PCW, CW the
independents on the same Linux product.
>
The UK is still picking up on Linux, but PC mags giving away SuSE RH on
cover cds is getting users who otherwise wouldn't purchase Linux to try it
out.

> Why not an 8 foot stack of RH or SuSE ? It's not far off believe me. RH
> actually presents a similar profit margin to Win98 upg so from a retail
> standpoint it would be OK.
>
When the major retailers get a steady stream of people asking for Linux
products, they'll take note of the demand start to do something, but until
then it's a brave organization that goes out buys thousands of copies of,
say, RH6 (bells whistles version) when it can't see an immediate demand.

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