Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 12:49:47 +0100
From: Cliff Sarginson
Ben, Here are my three main reason for such a request:
1.) The added convenience of the DVD-ROM included with the 6 CD's. 2.) At one point a few months ago, people commented about buying it rather than downloading SuSE to support the company. This would allow users to support SuSE without paying for all the trimmings. 3.) The convenience of having it ready to go. For $25 or so dollars, you don't have to bother fooling with disk images, burning CD's, etc. (the reason I mention burning CD's, is that, of course, you would want a copy of the system incase you were installing it for a friend, or perhaps your broadband connection was down) 4.) A small/mid-sized business, may want to avoid having to burn CD's, but may still want a large number of copies of the CD's/DVD's. So they could go buy one or two professional sets, and then buy a dozen Guru Editions (etc). However, they probably wouldn't buy a dozen Pro Edition CD's (due to cost), so it wouldn't really be like SuSE competing with it's self. Other considerations (this would be extra work on SuSE's part, but might be worth considering), would be too then offer ala carte copies of the manuals - however this wouldn't really be necessary. SuSE could then offer some kind of Guru subscription, and allow people to buy manuals every few releases.
Most of all though, as I said, users would get the DVD they probably don't have the hardware to burn themselves, and SuSE gets at least something for all of your efforts.
I don't know about most SuSE customers, but I would definitely be interested in such an edition. I hope I made a little more sense in this description.
Best, Tim
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-----Original Message----- From: Ben Rosenberg [mailto:brosenb@suse.com] Sent: Monday, November 20, 2000 12:04 AM To: SuSE Linux English Subject: Re: [SLE] This is an RfC for SuSE, Inc. and SuSE GmBH.
Tim,
I am not sure where you get the "every three or four months" from. If you look at the last year or so...6.4 came out April 11th in the states and about 3 weeks earlier in Europe..then comes 7.0 in September..and I doubt you are going to see a release from SuSE for another 2-3 months at least..so if you really look at it..it's about 6-8 months now between release cycles..which is why there are updates on the ftp site...so accept for the pay series .. if you bought the personal edition and just pulled the rest down with your broadband connect you are doing pretty well. Why would you need a "guru" edition with 6 CD's of software if you have a fast pipe to the net? One would only need a single cd of the base system and then do all the installing of other software from downloads. I would like a greater thought out arguement on the subject. I just don't get it so far. I am not trying to be a smartass or anything. Don't get me wrong, it's just that your logic is flawed. If I hear good ideas I am not opposed to saying something to the people I work with or to others within the company..let me know your thoughts.
Regards,
* Timothy R. Butler (tbutler@uninetsolutions.com) [001119 21:25]: -**- -**- Exactly! I just want a distribution I can justify buying every three or four -**-months when a new version comes out. I don't want to spend the same amount as a -**-full copy of Windows Millenium Edition ($189) each year in Linux updates. However, -**-$25 every four months wouldn't seem all that bad. And the added value of a DVD -**-would definately create demand... -**- --
Benjamin Rosenberg The Linux Experts
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