Le 02/12/2013 19:01, Susanne Oberhauser-Hirschoff a écrit :
There is only a limited energy available for openSUSE releases and their mainteance updates. If you --- as a professional --- need more for your customer than what the community provides, much longer maintenance, certified hardware, higher-end hardware, certified applications for your customer, then both your customer and you will be better served with SLE.
Where do you, as a professional using openSUSE, see the transition area between the two? Where would you like to see it?
if this is the problem, why was it not said before :-) - it's a valuable question. AFAIK, SLES/SLED can have up to 7 years maintenance (exact numbers do not matters), Red Hat have till *13* years https://access.redhat.com/site/support/policy/updates/errata/ this is called stability :-) if one needs such stability (and less), using professional - that is for money distribution is the besr solution. I don't think the price is a problem compared to the cost of regular updates (man power) this is a side of the problem. the other side, ands it's the key of open source / free software, is "how much user base do one need to ensure stability". How could Red Hat live without Fedora or Centos (and others)? this leads to the fact than Ree Hat and certainly SUSE gives to the community as much man power as they can without killing they enterprise. this we know and accept without problem (true for me at least). Now the community part: we receive from the project a wonderfull distro. We don't use paid for version for a lot of reasons, beginning by the fact that we use it at home, not for a living, or our boss do not want to give us the necessary money - may be he do not know we use openSUSE, or because only free beer is fun, or... may be we also pay for it: pay by giving time to debug, discuss, enhance, develop, document. think of the project as a life game, a World of Linuxcraft :-) so two reasons on the community part: we receive and we pay what we reseive by giving time and efforts. We receive experience, responsability, knowlegde *and all this is fun* jdd -- http://www.dodin.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org