joe wrote:
My guess is the sudden change to two different releases and raise in prices by SuSE was to offset lower than expected sales. A lot of other linux companies
No. The sales have climed steadily. It's just that when suse started in the us people thought they'd add an incentive for retail by selling the box cheap to them, so that they could add a huge markup and make a nice profit. It turned out they only added a very small markup and suse linux was WAY too cheap in this country.
will suffer the same fate. Times have changed, the ecomomic climate for linux in America is not the same as it was a year ago.
Actually, the business climate is still very good. All the big guys are moving into Linux rapidly. It's just that the consumers don't buy as many boxes here, plus the market is split much more than anywhere else - because EVERYONE wants to be in the us market so here's the most competition for box sales.