Michael Meskes <meskes@debian.org> writes: > On Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 12:53:34AM +1000, Russell Coker wrote: >> As for the support people, I don't think that necessarily makes it impossible. >> If you started up a company to produce a commercial distribution based on >> Debian for running Oracle then having your people answer the phones at Oracle >> would be good for business... > > Not really. These people are on your pay roll but do not generate any > revenue. So you have to have a lot of people busing this distro to run > Oracle to make it work. If you charge per incident or such, then those people would generate revenue. Also, the ability to advertise that you have people at Oracle answering questions could help generate revenue as well. Basically, the assumption is that you would construct your business plan so that it was good for business :-) Kevin
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