Date: Thu, 6 May 1999 22:38:38 -0500 From: "Mike Avery" <mavery@mail.otherwhen.com> To: advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Some good news for people looking for the FreeBSD CD Message-ID: <199905070347.WAA03080@hostigos.otherwhen.com> In-Reply-To: <41524.926045342@zippy.cdrom.com>
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On 6 May 99, at 19:49, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
> Walnut Creek CDROM has just finalized an agreement with Ingram Micro, the
> largest distributor in the U.S. (and possibly the world), to distribute
> the FreeBSD CDROM and upcoming retail box set. This means that you should
> start seeing the product turn up in stores like CompUSA, Fry's (more
> consistently, anyway - we've been at a number of Fry's stores for awhile),
> etc.
GREAT!!!! Wonderful!!
Now to get people going into the stores and asking for 'em... and
buying 'em!
How soon will the vendors be able to order the part and get it?
Mike
> If you are dealing with a local store who complains at not being able to
> get ahold of the product, please tell them to talk to Ingram and they'll
> almost certainly go "Oh, is that all I have to do? Why didn't you say so
> in the first place!" The SKUs they need to know are:
>
> FreeBSD 143452
> FreeBSD PowerPak 143453
>
> (The PowerPak is a retail box containing a book and 2 CD sets - the
> main product and the FreeBSD toolkit).
>
> Thanks,
>
> - Jordan
>
>
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