[ale] Red Hat

[Bill Ripley]

Jim Popovitch wrote:

> It would be interesting to know how well the full packaged copies of RH are
> selling.  I see racks of them everywhere, but I still just pick up the cd
> only distributions.  Anyone have any idea on the sales volume of the full
> Red Hat package at Office Max, Micro Center, etc.?  I'm also wondering if
> stores will only look at the sales of the full-blown package to asses the
> 'success of Linux' in their arena.
>

I bought the boxed set at Best Buy recently when it was on sale for $20. The
main reason I bought it was for the book, usually I just get the CD. I think the
one
on sale at Office Max is the McMillian Publishing set and not the Redhat
official set.