On Tue, 16 Sep 2003 09:08:49 +0100
Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have moved to a new thread, in the hope that someone at
MandrakeSoft, or at least, someone in touch with MandrakeSoft,
might see it.
On Tuesday 16 Sep 2003 1:05 am, Bill wrote:
Why is it when I go to my local Fry's I see rows of Red Hat
boxes some BSD boxes and Slackware CD's but never see Mandrake
boxes. I would gladly purchase Mandrake instead of downloading
it if it was in the stores. Seems to me that Mandrake needs to
get there product out on the shelves. I can purchase Red Hat all
over the place here in Silicon Valley but Mandrake is hard to
find. Why is that? Before Mandrake starts in with the adware
they need to make sure there product is out on the shelves next
to Red Hat.
I really would like to see some authorative statement as to why
Mandrake has this visibility problem. Linux has little
shelf-space in the UK, but I have *never* seen a Mandrake box.
Similarly, Linux Format is just about all we have in the magazine
line, and while they give the Mandrake distros on their disks they
obviously know little about it, as many statements they make in
their Q A pages are inaccurate.
I don't suppose anyone from MandrakeSoft is reading the Mandrake
and Advertising. thread any more, but if we knew why there was a
visibility problem we might have a better idea of how to combat
it.
Anne
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Registered Linux User No.293302
Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet?
I remember seeing 8.0 in CompUSA long after 8.2 was out and
wondering who would buy it that way. A new user might, but I know I
spent a good deal of time on the net researching distros before I
chose mdk. At that point there was no way I would have bought last
years version.
It probably died on the shelf. No merchant reorder (the staff of
life)
Also, after buying my first boxed set (8.2), and finding the book
poorly written and physically a piece of dung (Pages fell out), I
wouldn't have recommended the on the shelf version to anyone.
Shelf appeal and word of mouth are both serious marketing hooks for
any techie product, followed probably by reviews.
mdk gets pretty good reviews, but one out of three doesn't cut it.
It was, until very recently, difficult for me to recommend linux to
Windows users, frankly. It was alien enough that I would have been
married to them until they got comfortable, if I couldn't give them
the patience to join this list and sit back and read.
That's more than I wanted to sayMake it $.10 worth.
Lee
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