Balsam Professional 12.1 - New service coming to Poland from November

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Oct 3, 11, 22:28 #1

Dear All

Hope I find you all well.

A new product will be coming to the Polish market from November, and its targeted at everybody.

Are you starting up a business?

Well when you purchase a computer no doubt it will be shipped with a hard disk full of trial software that after 60 days will cost you a fortune, plus you may need to purchase additional software such as accounting, graphic design and such which may not be included when you purchase the computer.

STOP! Don't even turn on your new PC until you have tried Balsam Professional 12.1.

Balsam Professional 12.1 is a complete replacement for Microsoft Windows and ALL Additional Software.

It comes complete with:
LibreOffice + KOffice + Abiword and GNUCalc (that is three word processors, 3 spreadsheets and 2 Presentation developers.
Product Management Software including "openPROJ", "TaskJuggler" and more
Email: Kontact and Evolution, Claws Mail and Thunderbird
Web Browsers: Firefox, Konque:ror, Chromium, Opera
Accounting Software including G:NUCash and KMyMoney
Graphic Design, Photo Editing, Computer Aided Design (2D and 3D)
Multimedia: Video Editing and Playback, Audio Editing and Playback, DVD Burning tools

For those with Children:
Lots of Edutainment helping them learn language and mathematics
Plus lots of Games for keeping children of all ages (including those who really shouldn't be classed as children but more "big kids":
Action, Adventure, Role Playing, Arcade, Platform, Cards, Motor Racing

My personal favourites are "SuperTux" (like SuperMario), "SuperTuxKart" (like Super Mario Kart)
Pingus (Lemmings style game), and ExtremeTuxRacer (racing Penguins down hill collecting fish in 3D with amazing graphics that make you want to go to the mountains)!

Whats more you get 2 Original DVD's with 17GB of Software
Printed User Centric Instruction Manual (currently only choice of German or English) but if this product proves popular then I plan to translate the book into Polish for July next year release.
90 Days Official Technical Support from the Software Company
18 Months Product Support from my company.

Currently this product will only be available online - however we are looking to work with anybody who wishes to carry the product in their shops, and can negotiate special rates for companies who wish to pass it onto their staff.

Did I mention that this product is guaranteed free from all Windows Viruses?
Because our product contains no viruses, we have no need for anti virus software which means your computer will run faster!

So the price will be set around 300 PLN and comes with 18 months of software upgrades - ALL Software is upgraded not just some of it like Windows.

If a new version comes out you can upgrade for free, however if you purchase the new retail version, then you can extend your technical support period also.

New release every 8 months, November 2011 then July 2012.

Like I said I would like to work with operators of computer shops, computer engineers, networking specialists, point of sale suppliers and more so if you work or run one of these companies please message me.

Thanks!
Stuart

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Edited by: delphiandomine Oct 3, 11, 23:08 #2

Printed User Centric Instruction Manual (currently only choice of German or English) but if this product proves popular then I plan to translate the book into Polish for July next year release.

You're seriously trying to sell a product to Poles that isn't in Polish?

Seriously?

Who the hell is advising you?

Did I mention that this product is guaranteed free from all Windows Viruses?
Because our product contains no viruses, we have no need for anti virus software which means your computer will run faster!

For a start - it's obvious that you're just flogging a custom distro of Linux. Now - anyone with half a brain knows that while Windows viruses can't infect Linux - you still have the issue of Linux viruses. Take a look here for a start - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_malware . Not including anti-virus software is reckless, to say the least.

So the price will be set around 300 PLN and comes with 18 months of software upgrades - ALL Software is upgraded not just some of it like Windows.

I don't think I need to point out that you can obtain all of the software you're selling for free. Poles aren't stupid, you know.

(and I've had to bite my tongue when replying to this post...)

Wroclaw BoyThreads: 57 Posts: 5,470 Joined: Jul 3, 09 MEMBER ♂	Oct 3, 11, 23:12 #3
So the price will be set around 300 PLN and comes with 18 months of software upgrades - ALL Software is upgraded not just some of it like Windows. Humm will be interesting to see what the Poles make of that.

delphiandomineThreads: 42 Posts: 9,954 Joined: Nov 25, 08 ♂ [Suspended]	Oct 3, 11, 23:15 #4
Humm will be interesting to see what the Poles make of that. They'll think "wtf, I can get Ubuntu or millions of other distros for free, why would I pay for this?"

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Oct 3, 11, 23:34 #5

Its not just a custom distribution of Linux, because it includes technical support also.

Why would people buy it in Spain, France, India, South Africa, Saudi Arabia and further if they can obtain it for free on the internet?

There are additional aspects to the software namely the Balsam Extension’s that are available through the retail product that are not available online and it includes a number of closed source products including anti-virus software, my point was just that if you configure your system correctly any malware would at worst affect one current user and not affect the root partition because that is read only.

I will also point out that this product ships to Finland in English and German so why would it be any different in Poland?

I didn't have a problem finding English speaking people in Poland so why would it be a problem selling an English or German Language product to Poland.

If the product goes well, then it will be translated.

I am not expecting to sell thousands, but the most important thing is to establish a reputation for service, once I have established my reputation, then I can arrange with my supplier to translate the product into Polish, to translate the book into Polish we need to be shipping thousands and that just isn't going to happen overnight.

Most people have never heard of Linux the advertising will be done in Linux and I will include a PDF copy of the book translated into Polish which they can print out at their leisure.

swerden

Oct 20, 11, 18:00 #6

Hello,

I think it is not the point, if I can get it for free or not. Balsam Professional a service concept on top of open source. So people that are unsure or like to have direct annonymous advice, don't like to ask freinds, grep forums or something like that, can take installation support. You may like it. If your fine with the public informations offered by open-slxor other Wiki/Forum/freinds/etc, you can get the upcoming version with free download. Toyday you can download Plasma Active ONE for free. Your welcome
There are a lot of people out there which see value in this type of this type of open source model and they probably pay the box. This revenue is taken for developments like Plasma Active. The point is, if you buy a box, there should be a commitment behind the seller, that the money is taken to bring open source forward and initiate innovations. So if this commitment is not there, experiences has shown the model does not work.

Since about 20 years (very first beginning of Linux) I'm doing Linux. open source in gerneral took a lot of bennefit of these people buying products. Other always took free versions. Anyway, there is no doubt that this model works and people with not enough money or will to pay anything for such things had a lot of benefit as well.

regards,

Stefan

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