Kevin Dupuy
On Wed, 2008-06-25 at 09:46 +0200, Michael Loeffler wrote:
We need to make a difference regarding countries. In EMEA and especially german speaking countries first boxes arrived at release day at customer's side. As production happens in Germany and North America is pretty far away the shipment is delayed through shipment itself plus customs.
For 11.0 we see the fatest turn around time for production and delivery of physical boxes. Unless we don't let downlaod customers wait for another week or so it is impossible to ship at release date in certain countries to customers. BTW: I'm oppose delaying release day.
Interesting, and thanks for explaining it further, Michael. I do have one question for you: I went and pulled out some older SUSE Linux boxes (I'm in the US, BTW), and my 10.1 and 10.0 boxes both have a sticker on the bottom labeled "Made in USA". Both 10.2 and 10.3 boxes have a sticker labeled "Made in Germany". The 10.2 box was the first one that I had trouble getting here (meaning longer ship times, etc.)
Was that another case of budget/low demand, Novell pulling out of producing boxes in North America and not selling boxes through the distribution channel (stores, Amazon.com US, etc.)?
These two are not directly related - but happened at similiar timing. Novell pulled out of the distribution channel in the US. For the box production I have to go some more back in time: In the SUSE days, boxes were produced in Germany, then with Novell we produced them both in Ireland and the US - and finally went back to the German fab only, Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, Director Platform / openSUSE, aj@suse.de SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126