Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2407 mails)

[stefan.troeger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Stefan Troeger)]

Hi,

On Wed, Aug 09 2000 at 11:34 +0000, Purple Shirt wrote:

> 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 
> distribution over and over again. This means over time they repurchase the 
> VMware license and therefore over time actually pay the equivalent of 299 
> for their vmware license.
> 
> Is this of advantage to SuSE and vmware? Yes and No. I am not sure if SuSE 
> would sell as many Pro versions or less due to the increased price offering.
> 
> VMware definitely will win on this and increase their user base.

Questionable. You have to keep in mind that for VMware (the
company) a customer who pays $299 today is better than one who
pays the same amount distributed over a 3 years time period.

> It's easy math looking at 3 year time frame.

3 years are an eternity in the software bussiness. What if plex86
is ready in one year? Or everyone starts porting their software
to Linux?

> 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

What would keep me from buying only one SuSE version with VMware?
That way I have a 3 years VMware license and can then buy the
version without VMware and save $50 per release.

Ciao,
        Stefan


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