Re: [us-marketing] Re: LinuxFest NorthWest Report

On 05/04/2011 06:06 AM, Marc Paré wrote:
> Hi Tim et al
>
> Le 2011-05-03 19:11, webmaster for Kracked Press Productions a écrit :
> > I would like to ask, Is there a market for a CD or a CD set instead of
> > DVD? I have been looking at what is needed if the NA style DVD is broken
> > down to CDs for business systems that do not have DVDs, and still have
> > all the included material of the DVD[s]. Most of the businesses that do
> > not have budgets to buy newer computer will not have a DVD installed in
> > their business machines. So having only DVD style media will not work
> > for them.
>
> I used to be a whitebox retailer. Unless things have changed, CD 
> drives no longer come standard on boxes. Most whiteboxes boxes come 
> with no CD/DVD drives. You have to add these If companies still have 
> CD's on their machines, they are really outdated by today's standard 
> ... DVD's were added as standard drives quite a few years ago. So, 
> very few businesses will have CD drives. Also, if a company is still 
> making use of CD-drive boxes, a DVD drive (external) is very cheap to 
> buy or construct and is most cases deductible for tax purposes. There 
> are very few if any reason for any business not to install or purchase 
> a DVD drive for business purposes -- less than $100 or even $50.
As of last year, there were still many "city" computers that were old 
enough to only have CDs.  Several of the State agencies that I deal with 
for a group do not have more than a third of their computers having 
DVDs.  There are still a lot of CD computers out there that never have 
been upgraded to DVD.  I wonder how many school machines are new enough 
to have a DVD drive in it.  I know that if a DVD drive costs more than a 
CD drive, the school would have bought the CD version to save money.  
Now that the DVD is the standard drive, only the newest computers would 
have them.  In 2003, there were still many computers running Win 95 and 
Win 98.  With the way budgets are reduced every year, most places are 
not going to spend it on new[er] computers if the ones they have still 
work.  At the place where I live, last year HUD reduced their payments 
by $250,000.  This year it is almost $300,000 less than last year's 
amount.  So any Federal/State/Local government funded office or agency 
has been feeling the pinch.  So it may be a good thing for getting 
LibreOffice into their offices as a cost saving issue, but we will need 
to be able to have CDs for their older systems.
> A case could however be made for a personal box have only a CD drive, 
> in which case a $25 or even $15 DVD drive is easily added.
Yes, I love external drives.  Now they even have them powered by the USB 
port as well.  I have a CD/DVD burner as an external since it costs $75 
to replace this LightScribe burner when it costs over $250 to replace 
the internal one for my laptop[s].
> Emerging economy countries will most likely be the countries where a 
> CD version will be needed.
>
> Cheers
>
> Marc
I was thinking about a media set.  You can buy at Tigerdirect.com a four 
disc DVD case.  I bought the ten-pack when I bought my thin DVD cases.  
Although you will not have as much space as a DVD with four CDs, you 
still can fit a lot of stuff on them.  I was thinking that CD set would 
start out as a Windows CD set, with a different one for Linux, if 
needed.  Same with MacOSX.




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