Hi, On Tue, 16 May 2006, Carlos E. R. wrote:
The Tuesday 2006-05-16 at 00:34 +0200, Eberhard Moenkeberg wrote:
In my guess the current Novell Linux strategy is "the more publicity the better". And indeed they give away their good work for nothing currently, so there is only a small market for the box. But a huge spreading of the box content...
Well... perhaps. But they could sell instead the book. Even a book with a DVD, or with a magazine that includes the DVD :-p
Novell's home is USA. So I understand the strategy is to "home" SUSE Linux there too now. There seem to be totally different market situations for SUSE Linux in Germany/Europe and USA. In Germany, meanwhile it is a must for every Linux paper to include a SUSE-10.1 DVD. In USA, it seems one has to pay like for adverising for inclusion of SUSE-10.1 DVDs into magazines. So the "Linux scene newspaper publicity" is a good next goal over there. Cheers -e -- Eberhard Moenkeberg (emoenke@gwdg.de, em@kki.org)