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Re: [SLE] SuSE Inc. Lay offs?
- From: Samy Elashmawy <samelash@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2001 15:44:50 +0000
- Message-id: <3.0.3.32.20010208154450.01046008@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
At 09:07 AM 2/8/2001 -0800, Michael Hasenstein wrote:
>Samy Elashmawy wrote:
>>
>> How meny boxes at $79.99 do you expect a typical non comercial user to buy
>> a year at M$ type pricing. At $29.99 I have no problem buming up at each
>> dot version , but at $79.00 I will realy look closely at the product. If I
That is no wonder when they are air shipping the product when they cna down
load or air mail a master and pressw the cds here. That just plian bad
busines decision.
Not even microsoft hits you for three to four updates at $79.99. At that
price I will look very closely to see weather or not to upgrade. I may just
decide to upgrade a few packages or so as it is with three to four
revisions per year. I would rather spend that money on tech suport or
hardware. I havent had any rave reviews form there tech suport that I have
used. I have found this list to bemore detialed and in genereal a great
learning tool.
>You're wrong right from the start - we didn't sell a single box less
>with the new pricing, which is JUSTIFIED anyway. Slashing the price to
>$3 won't get us even 20% more sales (but a huge loss per box).
>
>Samy Elashmawy wrote:
>>
>> How meny boxes at $79.99 do you expect a typical non comercial user to buy
>> a year at M$ type pricing. At $29.99 I have no problem buming up at each
>> dot version , but at $79.00 I will realy look closely at the product. If I
That is no wonder when they are air shipping the product when they cna down
load or air mail a master and pressw the cds here. That just plian bad
busines decision.
Not even microsoft hits you for three to four updates at $79.99. At that
price I will look very closely to see weather or not to upgrade. I may just
decide to upgrade a few packages or so as it is with three to four
revisions per year. I would rather spend that money on tech suport or
hardware. I havent had any rave reviews form there tech suport that I have
used. I have found this list to bemore detialed and in genereal a great
learning tool.
>You're wrong right from the start - we didn't sell a single box less
>with the new pricing, which is JUSTIFIED anyway. Slashing the price to
>$3 won't get us even 20% more sales (but a huge loss per box).
>
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