Re: Live CDs for upcoming shows

From: Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>
To: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
Cc: josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com, pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Live CDs for upcoming shows
Date: 2008-06-04 07:21:42
Message-ID: 20080604092142.5df44e47@mha-laptop.hagander.net
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Joshua D. Drake wrote:
>
>
> On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 14:57 -0700, Josh Berkus wrote:
> > Josh,
> >
> > > Another option would be to get preloaded pen drives. They are more
> > > expensive but certainly more interesting, usable and durable.
> >
> > Aren't these around $10 each, though?
>
> No, I am finding them for less than that, all the way down to 5.00
> bucks a piece. Yes it is much more than a CD, but a CD is a throw
> away item. A pen drive has actual long term use.
>
> But let's take the high number, 10.00.
>
> 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?

//Magnus

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