On Wed, Jun 04, 2008 at 09:21:42AM +0200, Magnus Hagander wrote:
> Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> > Assuming we order 250, that is ~ 2500.00 (shipping etc..). The
> > item is then reusable for years... with a little blue elephant and
> > URL. It also becomes a talking piece, "What's that on your pen
> > drive?". Versus a CD which will likely be loaded once (if we are
> > lucky) and then thrown away.
> >
> > On the cursory review of companies that do this I am seeing prices
> > for a 128MB model for anywhere from 6.50 to 4.60. The real
> > question will be what does it cost to pre-load it. Let me see if I
> > can get some better numbers for that. However even if it cost 2.00
> > to pre-load it (which I highly doubt) we are still talking about a
> > resuable item.
>
> I like it :-) certainly a whole lot more attractive than the CDs.
> Are we talking about the kind where you stick a read-only image that
> works like a CD, but the drive is also available for use as a
> regular USB pendrive? So we can stick the pg stuff on there
> permanently, and the user can still use the pendrive as a regular
> one as well. Or are you talking regular pendrives just with a nice
> elephant on them?
I'm guessing that the garden-variety drives, set up as bootable
images, would be handier. If it turns out that whatever version of
Postgres we put on them has a major flaw, we don't want to immortalize
it in ROMs with the Postgres logo on them. It's also just more polite
to leave it up to the user what to do :)
Cheers,
David.
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