Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2407 mails)

[mha@xxxxxxxx (Michael Hasenstein)]

Samy Elashmawy wrote:
> 
> At 04:06 PM 8/6/2000 +0200, Pep Serrano wrote:
> >Lenz,
> >
> >On Wed, 2 Aug 2000 17:18:02 +0200 (CEST), Lenz Grimmer wrote:
> >>
> >>The DVD contains some more commercial packages that simply did not fit on
> >>the 6 CDs.
> >>
> 
> Hmmm, It seems like a ploy to hit custoemrs for more money. They just
> raised the price for what is basicly the same as 6.4 to make a deluxe
> package , and then trimmed it down to create a standard one at a cheaper
> price with only three cds.

WRONG. The prof. edition will have much more support and 4 instead of
just one manual. Those who don't need either one can get the update
edition, which gives you more (now the 6 CDs and the DVD edition
together) at about the same price as before. Unfrotunately we don't have
the update edition mentioned anywhere on www.suse.com right now... it
was introduced for just that purpose: to not raise the price for
long-term customers.

> I was more than willing to spring $29.99 for each new incremental version
> and heve been since 5.3
> I will not be able to continue this pattern at $59.99 (www.chumbo.com)  a

You don't need to unless you want the manuals. In this case you have to
pay that much, and I don't see why not.

> pop. On top of that I still dont have a dvd either.It looks like I may just
> wait and see how stable 7.0 and may even wait for 7.1.

??? The DVD is now always included with the Professional and the Update
Edition. Makes no sense to distribute is as a separate edition, we found
out. People who have a DVD still want the CDs, because they might want
to install on a computer whithout DVD at some time.

> >Does the CD include as well the whole 6 CDs?
> >I feel usual that the users with DVD not only want some extra comercial
> packages, any DVD user would desire to avoid a 6CD installation.


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Michael Hasenstein
http://www.suse.de/~mha/
SuSE Linux AG, Nuernberg (Germany)
SuSE Inc., Oakland, California (US)

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