On Tue, Sep 08, 2009 at 07:16:03PM +0100, Thomas Hertweck wrote: [...]
Ubuntu doesn't have an Enterprise version lurking in the background, that's why I think an LTS version makes sense for them.
[...] They do, or at least they wish to. And the "Enterprise version" IS the LTS version (that's what they offer paid support on) - you can even (announced this week) buy a dedicated support engineer from them. And that's the interesting difference - Ubuntu LTS competes with openSUSE in the "unpaid for" Linux market while the same distribution (Ubuntu LTS) competes (or hopes to) with SLES in the "paid for" market, but with a different business model. So far, Canonical has not made a commercial success with Ubuntu, but Ubuntu has had a remarkable amount of success in the "community mind-share" stakes. But if Ubuntu begins to be a commercial success and begins to break into the "Enterprise" market, both Red Hat and Novell will need to rethink their Enterprise Linux business model. My personal view is that we really do need an openSUSE LTS to be able to continue to compete with Ubuntu in the "unpaid for" and "community mind-share" areas. -- ======================== Roger Whittaker roger@disruptive.org.uk http://disruptive.org.uk ======================== -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org