Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (930 mails)

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On Thu, 10 Jun 2010 10:39:50 +0200, Martin Schlander
<martin.schlander@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> The enormous mindshare and hype that Ubuntu is getting in the home user market 
> (virtually unopposed), will let them grow and over time gain larger inroads in 
> the more profitable enterprise market too, and become a real competitor for 
> Novell - despite having an inferior product.

Publicity. Exactly.


> And while this is happening Novell are obsessing about Red Hat and resting on 
> their laurels. Instead of managing openSUSE like a real product, they're 
> treating it like a Fedora.

> The idea seems to be that techies, sysadmins and enthusiasts don't really care 
> about polish, ease of use and stability. But that's wrong.
>
> My take has always been that with 5% more end user friendlyness, openSUSE 
> would be 100% more successful in the home user market - and this would have a 
> very positive spill-over effect on SLE sales - because sysadmins and IT-buyers 
> are consumers too when they go home.

They also need more polish before release.  They treat opensuse as a
preview of SLE, and the users of opensuse as lab rats.  That attitude
produces sloppy releases with too many annoying bugs.


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