aledr wrote:
It's very easy to see that decisions at **open**SUSE are not driven by a community thought.
Yep, definitely - AFAICT, the community is not yet sufficiently strong and nor varied.
"OpenSource Solutions for SmallBusiness Problems"
I googled this, but didn't really find much of interest. IMHO, it is NOT the job of openSUSE to be particularly accomodating to the wide and varied world of KMUs. The typical KMU is NOT directly involved with openSUSE, they pay a service bureau or a consultant to help them with their needs. I've recently had some contact with a local KMU - some 25 people based in Zurich, but with international subcontractors and international sales staff (Europe, Middle-East and the US). Here's what they needed: - local office systems for standard back office work. openSUSE will cover that perfectly. - local office systems for logistics, finance and book-keeping. openSUSE does less well, but so does every Linux distro I know of. - remote systems for data-entry etc. - could have been done with openSUSE, but due to a requirement for integration with existing logistics/packing systems, Windows Terminal Services was chosen. - telephone system - I'm pretty certain it was Linux+Asterisk based,m supplied by Colt. - email - Outlook Exchange of course. If their local IT services bureau had been more open source oriented, they would have had a more open source based solution. To get back to the topic at hand - I run a small company all based on openSUSE. Primary reason being that I'm a long-time (10 years+) SuSE user. I don't have any particular needs that are not covered by openSUSE, although I am intrigued by what sort of bug-turn-around times I might expect were we to become an SLES-customer. I'm also intrigued by what Boyd Lynn Gerber had in mind when he posted the original post, which is why I'm still tagging along. /Per -- Per Jessen, Zürich (23.6°C) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org