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Retail Sales

Retail Sales

Posted Jul 24, 2003 2:37 UTC (Thu) by tjc (guest, #137)
Parent article: The new Red Hat Linux

Information on Red Hat retail sales is confusing. The FAQ says:

The Red Hat Linux releases will not be sold through the retail channel as a shrinkwrapped box.

This statement is followed three sentences later by:

Further information on the retail product line will be forthcoming closer to the product launch plan this fall.

How can there be further information on the retail product if it no longer exists? Is this referring to the enterprise edition perhaps, or some other yet to be announced product line? Or is there still a retail product, but it's no longer packaged as a shrinkwapped box? What on earth could that be; SmartMedia in a plastic egg? [probability 0.001]

It all seems a bit vague to me, but then so many things do...


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Red Hat Linux vs. "retail product line"

Posted Jul 24, 2003 3:23 UTC (Thu) by AnswerGuy (subscriber, #1256) [Link]

Red Hat Linux is dead (as a retail product). Red Hat Inc. is clearly referring something else as their "retail product line."

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