On 5/19/07, Gerald Pfeifer <gp@suse.de> wrote:
On Sat, 12 May 2007, Francis Giannaros wrote:
http://www.novell.com/products/opensuse/comparative.html [...] There also seems to be some other misconceptions in that comparison, like "Retail" instead of mentioning online download as well. A little unsure about the "limited availability" of security patches. These are guaranteed, right?
The "limited" here may refer to the shorter period of time where Novell and the SUSE Security Team provide security support and updates compared to the Enterprise products (namely 2 versus 7 years).
I have asked my colleagues to look into this and also the retail issue. Thanks for pointing these out!
I think it's only one of the many places that highlight something inherently wrong with the attitude towards openSUSE from Novell employees who don't work on it. The two products are for fundamentally different things: an enterprise, and another for the average desktop user consumer. Since they have different scopes (and particularly since they're developed by the same guys) these really shouldn't be seen as some type of competition in any way, and I _really_ don't think we need to undervalue the quality of openSUSE in order to enchance the marketing of SLE. That table comparison should be putting forward openSUSE's strengths just as much the SLE ones, while all I get from it is an impression that it's trying to undercut the quality of the distribution with inaccurate remarks that demonstrate favour toward SLE (and it's not exactly subtle). Anyhow, as far as everyone tells me, these issues are being addressed, so I'll sit tight and hope people have time to get around to it. :-) Kind thoughts, -- Francis Giannaros http://francis.giannaros.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org