[Tfug] Time to boycott Office Depot?

[Derbe]

Response from Office Depot (Marana)...

Office Depot has carried some LINUX software over the past several years, 
however, the software assortment carried is done at the Corporate level. 
Stores have no input into this except to supply sales for the product on the 
shelf. In our store (Marana) LINUX sales are very poor and unlike Microsoft, 
the vendor for the LINUX products that have been carried, doesn't buy back 
their outdated software when new stuff is available. If OD doesn't carry 
LINUX, it will be because OD shoppers have voted it off the shelves through 
their lack of purchases. I wish that national brands of computer mfgs 
(Compaq/HP, Dell, Gateway, etc would package the LINUX product if even in 
their buget systems. Like anything at retail, slow sales lead to less 
availability. I hope this answers your concerns
Tim




Jim Secan wrote:

>At 10:29 AM 03/27/03 -0700, Derbe wrote:
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>
>>I asked the Manager of the Marana Office Depot about this, his response 
>>is below...
>>
>>I got the fax you sent me including the alleged memo from Office Depot. I 
>>think it must me near April 1. This is not for real. There is no Michael 
>>Dietrich and the the supposed division he is VP of doesn't exsist. My store 
>>manager checked  all Office Depot corporated records for the last two years 
>>and he doesn't come up in any search! Also, my observation is that this 
>>letter isn't in any form normally associated with Office Depot's corporate 
>>memos. Hope this helps.
>>    
>>
>
>Yes, but he does not answer the question of whether OD is indeed getting
>out of the Linux sales business.  The fact that Mr. Dietrich doesn't exist
>is interesting (the Internet is NOT the font of truth some would like it to
>be), but I have been told by salespeople at OD (the Oracle store) that they
>were no longer carrying Linux software and would not be in the future
>either.  It would be interesting to find out if this was a store manager
>decision, or a higher-level decision.  Could you ask the Marana manager
>whether or not he's carrying Linux software and if not, could he carry it
>if he wanted to or if the decision to !Linux is being made higher up.
>
>Not trolling for conspiricies here, just want to know what stores are
>carrying stuff I care about so I can give them my business.  If Marana OD
>is handling Linux software, I'll buy from them instead of the Oracle store.
>
>Jim
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