<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 17 January 2011 11:05, Sean Miller <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sean@seanmiller.net">sean@seanmiller.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">On 17 January 2011 10:59, Jon Spriggs <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jon@sprig.gs" target="_blank">jon@sprig.gs</a>></span> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="im"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="gmail_quote"><div><div></div><br>Less taxes, oh and paying the person who's installing Linux. And the HR person who's making sure they're doing everything right by the person. And electricity, to, you know, keep the building running while they're doing the installations. Oh, Buildings? Rent, council tax, etc. Heaven forbid? That £50/machine profit suddenly becomes £10/machine loss, if you're lucky, and probably a LOT worse.<br>
<br>Sadly, I made the same sort of mistake in my GCSE Business Studies coursework 17 years ago, except my genius plan was to build custom-made machines from parts sourced from shops. The fact of the matter is that simply going in and asking for 50 machines, while it might have worked for Michael Dell (who did something similar with IBM to start out), isn't going to cut it in today's 1/2% margin markets<br>
</div></div></blockquote></div><div><br>Okay, so you're now talking different things... because you're suggesting that sourcing the parts, assembling them etc. costs less than £250 (including VAT)?? <br><br>Do you know this?<br>
<br>If not, why don't these people get the machines pre-assembled from PC World or whatever? Probably find they'd do them for £200, so that's a potential £100 mark-up AND they don't have to bother doing any assembly.<br>
<br>You can automate it, because you know the specification of the hardware.<br><br>"Installing Linux" will merely be a 5-minute disc image copy, hardly resource-intensive is it?<br><br>Or have I missed something??<br>
<br>Sean<br></div></div><br></blockquote></div><br>Advertising has certainly been missed which is expensive. And also who would buy these products? Members on this list might, but as most people know nothing different to Microsoft and even if they do, don't want it. It is not something that I would see as profitable.<br>
<br>Andy.<br>