joe wrote:
My guess is the sudden change to two different releases and raise in
SuSE was to offset lower than expected sales. A lot of other linux companies
No. The sales have climed steadily. It's just that when suse started in the us people thought they'd add an incentive for retail by selling the box cheap to them, so that they could add a huge markup and make a nice profit. It turned out they only added a very small markup and suse linux was WAY too cheap in this country.
will suffer the same fate. Times have changed, the ecomomic climate for
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 hade a big fat internet pipe I would just download it , but with dial up that is not an option. Shucks if you put the boxes in comp usa , best but , and aall the other consumer retiual outlets , you are not going to get the big coperate guys buying them there. You instead end up having your typical "joe blow" aho knows little about linux getting phreaked out by sticker shock. This is not MS it is LINUX. Freely aviualable and GPL. The chain stores want to move product and mark it up based on traffic , and with 4 reviosons / dot versions a year , the wont keep the stock on the shelf , as soon as the new one is released theey will mark down the older one. $79.99 is to expensive , shucks , you can go down to the book store and buy a good quality linux book with the distro on cd for half the $79.99 price of the boxed set. Spliting it into two diffrent version was not to my likeing. Most peaple will feel they are missing something in the standard vversion , and feel they are paying to mucg for the deluxe version , just to make sure they got every thing. I bought my first version 5.3 for $69.99 retial at borders , and a real short time it was obsolete as the newer veersi0on came out. Linux is now getting just as expensive as M$ from looking at the retial shelevs. At 02:36 PM 2/7/2001 -0800, Michael Hasenstein wrote: prices by linux in
America is not the same as it was a year ago.
Actually, the business climate is still very good. All the big guys are moving into Linux rapidly. It's just that the consumers don't buy as many boxes here, plus the market is split much more than anywhere else - because EVERYONE wants to be in the us market so here's the most competition for box sales.
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