SuSE could include a 3-year VMware license with their professional distro and sell it at 120 dollars. Reason for this is that people repurchase the
A user buys 6 versions of SuSe pro and one version of vmware. Cost. 6*70+299=720 dollars total
A user buys 6 versions of SuSE pro with full vmware lincense included. Cost. 6*120=720 dollars total
This strikes me as unworkable drivel. You're asking people to sign subscription contracts to tie them to software they might not want to use in 6 months time, let alone 3 years time. You're asking SuSE to put in place some mechanism for keeping track of these contracts, and starting international legal actions when people all over the world start defaulting. If Vmware want to offer their product on a credit basis - !!spread the cost over 3 years with 3 easy payments of just 100 dollars!! - that's their business. Why should SuSE offer it and further complicate their product range? I can see that there is a business case for selling expensive machines with SuSE preinstalled (SuSE have partnered IBM for this); I can see the business case for selling expensive software with a distro (Redhat have partnered Oracle for this, I don't know what SuSE have got in mind); I can't see a business case for taking one piece of moderately inexpensive software (Vmware is pretty cheap for home users) and working out some tricky scheme for spreading the cost. I also can't see a business case for Vmware to hand over a big chunk of the Vmware licence fee to SuSE when they can just as easily sell the licences themselves. -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq