Re: Price of Professional Edition

I think this is a fair and indeed very interesting question because:

1. Red Hat needs to compete for customers. To compete effectively, it 
needs to advertise more. Why not advertise in MSDN Magazine and other 
print bastions of Microsoft software.  Take the bull by the horns. The 
issues will be price/performance.

2. Showing a price/performance advantage and ease of use is critical to 
winning converts. That price/performance advantage needs to be trumpeted 
to the masses.

Red Hat is improving in the user friendliness department, but still has 
much work to do in that area. To make the OS popular, it must become 
extremely easy to use and overcome the prejudices and fears of the 
average user. What you and I think doesn't count. What Microsoft users 
think counts a whole lot, because these are the potential converts.

Best strategy is to emphasize price/performance and offer free help with 
installation whether you download the CD set or buy the boxed sets. 
Admit ease of use issues exist but will be addressed.

Bob Cochran
Greenbelt, Maryland, USA
 

Ed wrote:

>$150 for the Professional edition seems expensive the more I think about
>it.  I make sure to purchase from Red Hat because I want to support
>Linux, but these days I can buy a whole computer for $400.  Adding $150
>for the operating system is a 37% increase.  That's only $50 less than
>Win XP Pro.  
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>I would be curious about how much research Red Hat does in pricing
>this-- particularly because I would expect most of us to continue using
>7.x server installs for the near future.
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>On Fri, 2002-09-27 at 17:33, Ted Clark wrote:
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>>Thomas Dodd wrote:
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>>>I just saw that Linux Central lists RHL-8 as shipping.
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>>><http://linuxcentral.com/catalog/index.php3?prod_code=D000-183>
>>><http://linuxcentral.com/catalog/index.php3?prod_code=D000-184>
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>>>Still no details as to what's in each though :( 
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>>The price went down, so my best guess is that the personal edition 
>>consists of 6 discs (5 binary/source and 1 documentation), a getting 
>>started guide, and 30 days of RHN.
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>>Oh, and those Red Hat stickers. :-)
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>>TC
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