Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2974 mails)

[Jerry Kreps <jerrykreps@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Matt,
What do you do in computers/programming that pays that low?
The cost of living must be eating you alive in the bay area...
JLK

On Thursday 08 February 2001 11:28, Matthew wrote:
> Good points....
>
>   Although I think your finger slipped on a decimal point when
> accounting the maximum memory of the 2.4 Kernel. Its at 64GB, kind
> of better than the previous 2GB limit, although not going to effect
> me for quite some time! I only make $32.5K a year in the bay area!
>
> Behind the scenes the 2.4 is literally a whole new re-write, the
> base of it is set out totally differently from 2.2, this led to
> some pains when I did an upgrade....
>
> Matt
>
> On Thu, 8 Feb 2001, Gary wrote:
> > Hi Samy,
> >
> > On Thursday, February 08, 2001, 1:24 AM, you rearranged your
> > electrons about "[SLE] SuSE Inc. Lay offs?":
> >
> > S> all the more reason to keep the BS factor and smoke and
> > mirrors stuff to a S> minimum. The reason I continue to buy suse
> > is the rock solid product , the S> new two tone pricing structure
> > does not make me happy. I have bought every S> version since 5.3
> > most of them for $29.99 and am not happy with being hit S> for M$
> > type pricing of 7.0 / 7.1
> >
> > $69 is far from MickySoft type pricing.  Have you checked out
> > what the W2K servers are going for, starting at lease $2000+ for
> > small licenses ... and any upgrade from M$ is costs more than far
> > more than a full distro. Linux is not only a desktop application,
> > but several other things rolled into one, i.e. NFS, webserver,
> > firewall, DNS server, router, mail server, etc. You pay *extra*
> > for all of these, in M$. SuSE's pricing is right in line with the
> > other distros, unless you want the RH Pro which is $159 to $179
> > US - that is without hardly any software...  You mainly get a web
> > server and SSH... big deal.
> >
> > S> That and there new "strategy has turned off a LOT of LOYAL
> > suse S> useres who put them there.I seems that they want to go
> > closer to S> the enterprise big corperate customer and not there
> > mainstay linux S> users of the past. If that does contimnue , I
> > will look into S> another distro , most likely Debian.
> >
> > I disagree with you here about their pricing strategy.  It is
> > directly in line with any other distro on the store shelves...
> > Check out Best Buy, or Office Max, or any of the others, $69 is
> > the going rate here in the US for a powerpack or Pro version, and
> > most don't have the complete manuals that SuSE has.  Getting
> > closer to enterprise, is the money backbone for any Linux
> > company, as retail sales worldwide will not sustain corporate
> > earnings.  Profit comes from service.  Linux per se is now in a
> > position to really do damage to M$ enterprise corporate users
> > because of the new 2.4 kernel.  Memory is now fully supported up
> > to 6.5 Gb, instead of 2MB, cluster and load balancing is
> > enhanced, and most importantly the use of multiple processors is
> > now fully supported, which enterprise has always used and needed.
> >  I believe that now up to 13 processors (from my poor memory) are
> > now supported, and some have used far more with success...
> >
> >
> > --
> >
> > Best regards,
> >  Gary
> >
> > Today's thought: The right half of the brain controls the left
> > half of the body. This means that only left handed people are in
> > their right mind.
> >
> >
> >
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