Well I think they are pressured by Red Hat to copy that model. There's a tremendous culture of mediocrity in the US software world that says the one who ships first wins. Then there is the supposed "success" of the credit and asset bubble of the last few years which has convinced a lot of otherwise intelligent people that if they don't follow the US "business model" they'll fall behind. People in executive circles mostly read the same information sources, the WSJ's etc. of the world. So there is to some extent information asphyxiation when it comes to info that leads to decision making. The cliche, probably true to a large extent, is that CEO's decide based on a magazine article when richer sources of information within the company are ignored. These are the ignored inefficiencies of capitalism with large corporations -- the massive internal information and cooperation inefficiencies of large companies that determine price without being transparent to the market. Then of course SuSE has to establish a constant revenue stream. I don't know what their arrangment is with the VC's, but it's either IPO or a put if it's the normal case... so there is pressure to build up revenue streams. Those are the realities. Hopefully this corrosive business climate does not damage SuSE's quality product. I would adopt a wait-and-see approach. After all, you do not actually need to upgrade to 7.2, or you can wait to do it by ftp. C On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 08:49:29AM +0200, Luis Villaverde wrote:
I think is a bad policy put in market a new distro so quickly.
We sell (and use) SUSE but our buyers aren't happy because 1 month ago they bought 7.1 and now is ready 7.2 I think is better 2 distros by year and then you can upgrade your distro via internet, you can recompile kernel, etc etc. (2 months ago come into spain the 7.1 )
But buyers think you are playing with them.
If you copy the policy of RedHat (american vision of the market): put a new version before the competence.... then you have errors, faults, etc etc... I think sUSE needs the european vision: slow but sure.... And stupid can drive at 200 km/h but the most inteligent boy can't stop the car in a second without problems.
It's my opinion.
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Corvin Russell