Hi, On Fri, 9 Sep 2005, Pascal Bleser wrote:
Eberhard Moenkeberg wrote:
On Fri, 9 Sep 2005, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
houghi schrieb:
On http://www.infoworld.com/article/05/09/07/HNsuselinux10_1.html I see that the price will be 59EUR or 59USD. Are these prices correct
Yes. Please refer to http://lists.opensuse.org/archive/opensuse/2005-Sep/0419.html
and if so, why are they now 60 instead of 90? To make you happy?
I guess it is simply the market... But the lower price allows faster release cycles again - not the worst.
Seems pretty logical to me as well. Novell's plan undoubtedly is to widen its user base, and that's happening through its SUSE Linux distribution. And they are doing that by 1) the openSUSE move 2) substantially lowering the price of the boxed set
What they hope for is: more users + larger community = more SLES, support, consulting
Well, I'm not working for Novell/SUSE, but it seems to be a pretty consistent idea to me. At least it makes sense. The nice thing is, it's to everyone's benefit.
Let's hope for the future that Novell really makes money out of its Linux strategy. The better Novell's wealth, the more weight they can put into [SUSE] Linux.
The openSUSE initiative quite obviously seems to be a reaction to the fact that their earnings were (much?) lower than what they expected for SUSE Linux and SLES. I think it's a pretty smart move. I just hope they're going to get the money they're investing back quite soon, because the opposite, on the long term, could mean layoffs at SUSE or maybe even hopping down from their Linux strategy one day. Novell is not about philantropy, they're making business, whatever the strategy is.
But we're still far away from that, and let's hope the openSUSE move will also be to their very own benefit ;)
Novell is by far a bigger player than SuSE was. So I guess "making more money with more cheaper boxes" is not the goal. Novell does not need that (it is just peanuts for them) - I guess Novell simply adopted Linus' sentence of "world domination" for their own business plans. Later than the others, but obviously not too late... Cheers -e -- Eberhard Moenkeberg (emoenke@gwdg.de, em@kki.org)