Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (441 mails)

[Gerald Pfeifer <gp@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 5 Mar 2009, Rajko M. wrote:
> > 10.1 is not an example of a crusty corporate structure that hates
> > change. Its an example of a wrong decision taken for all the wrong
> > reasons and learning from it.
> Really :-)
> Few individuals, not influenced by environment, brought wrong decision, 
> but learned from consequences, end of story. Romantic picture that I 
> haven't seen except in movies.

It's not just individuals that can learn, also organizations are able
to learn.  Both took place due to what happened that year.

> The only way to make guys on upper floors aware of problems is when 
> customers/users cry laud, or they order a survey.

This list is not quite complete.  Think open door policies, skip level 
meetings, advisory boards, etc.  At Novell we have all of these.

> And, about decrusting, I can see some, otherwise I wouldn't care to 
> comment, but there is still to strong focus on enterprise.
>
> ***
> The main problem is that Novell has no product for small business and 
> personal use. Many would go around and try to sell software, but offer 
> is SLED or openSUSE. First expensive, second far from professional. 
> There is nothing in between.

Somehow most concerns about our Enterprise products on this list
are raised by non-Novell employees ;-), whereas AJ and me (and other 
colleagues) keep reemphasizing that making openSUSE as good and
successful as possible is our primary objective here.

The proposal regarding openSUSE release cycles is a good example,
by the way.  This is solely driven from an openSUSE perspective.

Gerald
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