On Thu, 2004-10-07 at 07:21, David Krider wrote:
On Thu, 2004-10-07 at 12:37 +0200, Patriiiiiiiiiick wrote:
I suppose, then, that it would depend on the costs of bandwidth. Is it, indeed, actually cheaper for SuSE to host 7-8 GB of an OS for download than it is to box it up on a couple DVD's and some CD's. And throw in a manual. My guess is that, in volume, the box sets are actually cheaper than what they pay in ISP fees. Eight gigabytes is actually a ton on bandwidth, you know? Sure, you can let your cable modem run all week and get it, but actual, dedicated, guaranteed bandwidth is expensive. I don't know. Maybe I'm way off base here. But if it were cheaper for them, I'd think they'd be doing it already.
Regards, dk
The cost of a large pipe to the internet is expensive but if you provide a site available to people that bought the product the cost gets spread amongst the purchasers and it then becomes a cost effective means of getting the product to your customers. And it also eliminates some of the distribution costs. It also provides a effective place to put update media, such as the XFS install problem we had with 9.1. The fixed install CD/DVD could have been put on the purchase download site. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989 SuSE since 1998 * Only reply to the list please*