Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (94 mails)

[Per Jessen <per@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Administrator wrote:

> From a strategy point of view, the question isn't who our customers
> are, but who we want as customers.  This is, in part, conditioned by
> who our customers are at present but in the main by how we want to
> differentiate ourselves from the competition.

+1

> I'm no expert, but I think our customers are the people or
> organisations who provide us with the resources we need to operate. 
> We provide them with something of value to the in return.

+1

> That gives us 3 groups of customers, who can then be subdivided:
>
> 1) Novell
> 2) Users of openSuSE
> 3) Developers and contributors
>
> The key group of customers is the users, as without them there is no
> value for Novell and no differentiator for the developers and
> contributors.

Bit of a catch-22, coz' without developers and contributors, there's
nothing for the users. 


/Per Jessen, Zürich

--
To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxx
For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@xxxxxxxxxxxx