On Wed, 3 Mar 1999, Ed Cogburn wrote: > Like George Bonser has said previously, I think the only way that > Debian is going to grow its market share better than its currently > growing is for the creation of a commercial company which adopts > Debian as its base distribution. This company can provide > corporate support to enhance Debian's position in the corporate > world, and improve the install and maintenance of the system, by > adding new software which isn't a priority for current Debian > developers....
I dunno. There's a lot of people who would like to find out about Linux, but aren't prepared to bet the whole farm on it sight unseen. They'll pay say 1100 bucks for a white box PII machine with Windows 98 installed without a qualm however (I did anyhow a couple months ago). Would they demur at paying say 1115 dollars for the same machine with Win 98 on one partition and Debian on another? Of course not-- and some dealers would even think "WINDOWS AND LINUX!!!" worthy of advertising. I don't see any great problem getting Debian onto a million new boxes, in other words, if someone takes the trouble to assure PC sellers that installing Debian is simple and easy and exceptionally cheap. There'd be a potential problem dealing with newby customers who had Debian on their systems and weren't quite hip on the subject of Linux, but that's another issue. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mike Shupp California State University, Northridge Graduate Student, Dept. of Anthropology http://www.csun.edu/~ms44278/index.htm
