Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (265 mails)

[James Tremblay <jamesat@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday 01 May 2007 19:00, M Harris wrote:
> On Tuesday 01 May 2007 16:51, James Tremblay wrote:
> > How many versions are there between 6.06 and 7.04 ,
> > sounds to me like the billionare is giving away what Novell MUST sell to
> > stay alive, can you say "Microsoft school of marketing".
>
>         Novell is making a mistake.
>
>         The cash cows need to be *more* and openSUSE must not be less.
>
>         Allow me to explain.
>
>         openSUSE should be just as stable and robust as SLED, SLES.  In other
> words I should not be compelled to buy SLED or SLES because of robustness
> or stability.  (that should be a standard of excellence)   SLED and SLES
> should have a value *ADD* that compels purchase.  They could have a higher
> tier support... voice support vs on-line...   1 year vs 90 days... etc.  
> But, the openSUSE product should (without support) be just as robust as
> SLED, SLES. The reason I would purchase SLED, SLES is to receive world
> class tiered support, printed documentation, voice support,
> indemnification, etc.  But openSUSE needs to be able to compete with
> Kubuntu...  end of story.
>
> That's the way I see it.

and I have already advocated for a once a year release with more testing and 
less duplication of apps, i.e. YOU , opensuse updater, zenupdater. At least 
now there are only two, unless you want more then you can add more i.e. 
SmartPM.
-- 
James Tremblay
Director of Technology
Newmarket School District
Novell CNE 3\4\5
CLE \ NCE in training.
http://en.opensuse.org/education
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