don’t call us…
basically, mothership told best buy to suck it today.
sorry for the language folks, but there is no other way to put it.
in case you haven’t heard, the earnest folks over at compusa have teamed up with mothership to offer a program called small business value, which will grant access to shipping vista code as early as november 30.
getting down to brass tacks…
this small business value program is a volume licensing program with a minimum 5 seat buy-in. absolutely nothing new about that.
and mothership has said for a little while now that volume license customers would have vista in their hot little download queues at the end of november.
now, how long it will actually take to download once the expected onslaught starts is anyone’s guess.
so…really nothing newsworthy about this then, right?
wrong.
by partnering with compusa, mothership gave a nice big one-fingered salute to the white or blue shirt folks who work for the big yellow tag.
about 6 months ago, such a move wouldn’t have been such a big deal.
but best buy has made great waves about their initiative/push/steamroll into the small business space.
to the point that some folks have been sounding the death knell of the the small consulting shop ever since.
here’s a newsflash:
consulting shops, large & small, go out of business all the time. and sometimes for little more than the owner/lead tech/executive trashcan emptier was in a bad mood because the convenience store was out of his favorite brand of fruit pie when he stopped on his way to the office that morning.
however, all of best buy’s previous talk obviously means bupkis to the boys & girls in redmond, if this move is any evidence.
in one fell swoop, compusa becomes the spot for early adopter businesses, while best buy looks like an also-ran, sitting on the sidelines.
heck, i’m half-expecting to see a homebrew recreation of the rumble scene from west side story pitting the cusas against the bbs posted to youtube later tonight.
all i can say is…
welcome to the funcave, best buy.
