Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2407 mails)

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ITS A 30 DAY LICENCE.

At 03:48 PM 8/9/2000 +0100, Derek Fountain wrote:
>> I would love to be able to run VMware on my box.  I was extremely impressed
>> with the 30 days use I had of it.  But to buy it for $300?  There's no
way I
>> can justify that to myself  (or my wife).  It's just too expensive.
It's *at
>> least* the equivalent of a new mobo + chip + mem and it would mean that I
>> wouldn't be able to buy each new ver of SuSE as it comes out nor would I be
>> able to keep adding to my library of linux books as I can now.
>
>Vmware for home (hobbist) use is 99USD. That's about 66GBP
>at current exchange rates. In the snippet quoted below you
>say you'd buy it for that!
>
>> Perhaps if SuSE could possibly do a deal along the lines of reg'd SuSE
users
>> get it at $100 (even that's a bit steep but I'd be willing to bite the
bullet
>> and save up for it).  I should imagine too that that it wouldn't cost a
lot to
>> advertise this either.  The L. Journal, L. Gazette  et al would certainly
>> splash this around.
>> 
>> What do you think Michael?  Would your marketting people go for a
suggestion
>> like that?  But, more importantly, are they cheeky enough to approach
>> VMware?
>
>SuSE and Vmware clearly have a relationship of some sort.
>You can buy Vmware with SuSE on a preinstalled VM if you
>want it. Have you checked the vmware web site recently?
>
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