On Thursday 07 September 2006 00:42, Michael James wrote:
I think this suggestion will kill sales completely.
Maybe, Maybe Not.
Sales need to compete with downloads for early access.
Yes, that model has been wildly successful for OpenSuse, Red Hat and all others that have tried it, hasn't it!? The boxed set sales have ALREADY disappeared with the nearly instantaneous availability of download ISOs. My testbed machine might run a download, but servers in my business and my customer's bussinesses would have the boxed set sitting there on the shelf. I wouldn't install the (possibly) buggy first download, knowing that the clean boxed set would arrive with in a couple months.
But Novell do need to have a hard think about what the boxed sets offer. When they first took over SuSE they were staggered at the boxed sales.
You know this HOW? If they thought the boxed sales were "staggering" why would they kill it off the first chance they got? -- _____________________________________ John Andersen