Roy Schestowitz wrote:
__/ [ houghi ] on Wednesday 26 July 2006 12:46 \__
Robert Vriens wrote:
Browsing thru the various messages on this forum and afterwards
installing SLED 10 i was wondering if it is the answer to our friends at
Redmond?
Any idea?
No, because everybody has different expectations. e.g. for me it isn't
a distribution I would use.
Also: no, because the answer to our 'friend' at Redmond has been here for
many years. It just needs recognition from the public (awareness).
I'm quite aware of Novell's offer. Either you keep content with whatever trash
Novell puts on the net, cf.:
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.os.linux.suse/msg/80f1a09aaac5fcf3?hl=en
a message you never answered
OR
you pay 50% / year for SLED upgrades, which is completely ludicrous given the
little work Novell puts in compared to the work of all the developers who work
for free to provide the software.
Fortunately, Novell has many partners (distribution channels)
Oh, Hovsepian speak, now! Partners are from the foregone Netware era when
customers expected to pay almost as much for software as for hardware. What
they need now is a solid OS for their lan installed by a consultant and, then,
press the apt-get button every day. New hardware? Call back the consultant.
Need some kind of special purpose software? Ask a programmer to hack it. Put
it on the net, if it's of any use to anybody, it will come back full featured
a year or two later.
This consultant may be one of those so-called partners but, if Novell's
margins are as high as in the good old times, companies will move to private
consultants installing Debian.
Novell is walking a thin line and, at the present time, it is not behaving.
and a brand
name people trust.
Yes, people remember the good old times and building a name is quite an
undertaking. Unfortunately, trashing a name can be done darned fast. IMO,
that's what Novell is up to now by not releasing a corrected version of
OpenSuse 10.1 .
Novell's problen is that it didn't begin lean and mean as Red Hat did. When
they think small, they're still thinking way too big. And even Red Hat is
thinking too big!
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=RHAT&t=3m&l=on&z=l&q=l&c=
Linux and open source is all about having the job done perfectly. But all
marketing pretense is way too costly.
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