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

On 05/04/2011 05:38 AM, webmaster for Kracked Press Productions wrote:
> 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 CD's on their machines, they are really outdated by today's standard 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.

How about waiting on this one?

Unless there's a particular urgency here, I think the cost/benefit will 
show itself much more clearly over time.  Right now, we're providing 
LibO via two different media: DVD & download.  That's a solid foundation 
from which to start.

As we continue to get these releases into people's (organizations') 
hands, their responses will clear this issue up.  The only reason I 
bring this up is that:

1) we don't have a handle on the /scale/ of the need
2) "product proliferation" has its own set of costs

fwiw, ymmv, etc

Best,
-Craig

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