On Mon, 2007-10-29 at 09:53 +0100, Wolfgang Rosenauer wrote:
Aniruddha wrote:
Let me explain my myself. As the owner of an IT company I am always looking to provide my customers the best (Open Source) solution. I am absolutely not Windows minded however looking at the figures SLED becomes very difficult to sell:
Windows XP 7yr support 100,- EUR Gentoo Linux unlimited support 0,- EUR SLED 7 yr support 329,- EUR
That Gentoo comparison is a joke isn't it? If you would do that you could also easily update to a new openSUSE version every two years what would also give you "unlimited support" for zero costs.
No it isn't and prior to the release of openSUSE 10.3 I was preparing for large Gentoo deployments. You're right that I could a new openSUSE version every two years but considering the costs (and down-time) involved in comparison to Gentoo doesn't make a viable solution.
Are you targetting home users or business users with your IT company? That's the important question because it would give us a hint which costs for the customer are important anyway.
Wolfgang
Good question. I am targeting home users for now with plans for business users in the near future. However I do want to have a stable option (SLED) available for certain home users who require this. -- Regards, Aniruddha Please adhere to the OpenSUSE_mailing_list_netiquette http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_mailing_list_netiquette -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org