Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (229 mails)

["Rajko M." <rmatov101@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sunday 07 November 2010 06:00:37 Carlos E. R. wrote:
> On Sunday, 2010-11-07 at 11:23 +0100, Per Jessen wrote:
> > Steven L Hess wrote:
> > > Substitute something else for professional.  I am sure there are
> > > plenty of users like me who don't care if "professionals" find
> > > openSUSE useful.  I don't do one thing "professional" with my 11.3
> > > installations, I do things that are useful to me. Let SLED be what
> > > professionals use.
> >
> > I'm also not sure professional is the best choice of words here, but the
> > E in SLED is for Enterprise, which is different.  There are many
> > small-to-medium size businesses that (could) manage very well with a
> > professional openSUSE distro.
>
> Absolutely.
>
> Although, the drop of maintenance time to only 18 months has sent quite a
> few looking for something else that offers at least 24 months.

Professional is fine word waking up memories of something that was good in 
every piece it was installed. 

And just remark on "short" maintenance term of 18 months.
For people that offer services based on openSUSE to SOHO market, it should be 
no problem if they support only desktops. Having end users to learn few bits 
ever 1.5 years should not be a problem, it can be seen as your active role to 
keep customer up to the modern times demands. 

With servers is another story, but if you support services that need stability 
then use SLES, otherwise pull sleeves up and learn how to adapt configuration 
to new release, or find other in the same position and take over maintenance 
beyond 1.5 years. 

KDE3 guys showed by example that if you really want, then nothing is 
impossible. 

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Regards,
Rajko
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