Re: [ossig] Business Model

["Colin Charles " <byte@aeon.com.my>]

On 28 Dec 2002 at 16:24, Vincent Lee wrote:

> > Incidentally, your Sun Trainer material at your
> > website is very 
> > useful/handy. I commented on it to a few OSS people
> > at one of our gatherings, but couldn't for the life 
> > of me remember the URL or where 
> > I saw it.
> > Great stuff. Keep up the good work (with all 
> > those MCQs & answers).
> 
> I have been busy working on a jboss project, no time
> to continue the Solaris Sys Admin II MCQs.

When time permits, do update it. Someone should do the same for the 
LPI and the other available certification courses out there too.

> Thanks for your encouragement, mine is nothing
> compared to your recent praise worthy OSS workshop for
> the school teachers and old folks. Brilliant !!

It wasn't a single person effort. Lots of the others weren't 
mentioned. 

> By the way, anyone in the mailing list interested to
> open a shop selling cloned PCs with pre-installed
> linux + OSS applications?  I am exploring the
> feasibility of this business model. Any ideas,
> suggestions,  advice, feedback, contacts, info are
> welcome.

Hehe... You may want to talk to CY Lan (Patrick), as he was probably 
the first Internetter to do something like this. He started Interplay 
Systems, and at one stage they were doing fairly well, with shops in 
PJ SS8 and even in Sunway Pyramid.

In the current market, I think he's moved over to some place in 
Cheras, but nonetheless, he started a clone PC business with pre-
installed Linux + StarOffice. That was the last I had contact with 
him.

They're available at http://www.interplay.com.my/ (iirc).

Somehow, OSS for the end user seems to be a little hard to drive in. 
After all, these end users (the home users) can pick up a pirated 
copy of Windows XP for RM5. Why bother with something so unfamiliar, 
especially if they have children that want to play games (and no, the 
parent's don't have a clue on how to WINE the game!).

> Thank you for your time. Happy New Year !

Yer. Have a Happy New Year... 2003 is coming, and 2002 ended so soon.
--
Colin Charles, byte@aeon.com.my
http://www.bytebot.net/


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