On Mon, 10 Oct 2011, Keith Bachman wrote: > USB flash-based drives is where things are headed, I think - for retail > purchases, anyway. [snip] > Thumb drives, while more expensive than DVDs, are infinitely more > reusable, and update-able. But the fact that they can be altered makes them undesirable as a means for distributing software -- the producer of the software wants to know what the customer is getting. You'll want to have an unchanged original copy of the software you purchased. Also, I think the cost of flash drives is very significant. To use a few DVDs instead would save a lot of money. Mike