Hi, On Saturday 30 November 2013 23:46:37 Wolfgang Rosenauer wrote:
Am 30.11.2013 22:22, schrieb Robert Schweikert:
I would like openSUSE to stay relevant. For example relevant to stay (or get) supported from third party (yes, even closed source) software vendors.
This is extremely difficult.SUSE has a whole team dedicated to get support for SLES from ISVs. Every time an ISVs states supprt for a distribution it costs the ISV a large chunk of money. I am not certain that we can pedal fast and hard enough to make it worth the while of an ISV to state support for openSUSE. There is not necessarily a direct correlation to relevance.
hmm, some examples I have in mind: SpiderOak Spotify Crossover Office
That's not the sort of ISV you are used to probably but none of them has packages for openSUSE but they have for Fedora and Ubuntu at least. And there are probably many more similar to those. And yes I'm pretty sure that the size of the user base is relevant to get their attention.
I think almost nobody can question that we are the number 3 or 4 option for companies like the ones above.....and many other Free Software companies. Ubuntu, Red Hat ecosystem and Debian are too frequently in front of us when choosing a distro to based you business upon. There used to be a time in which Free Software (small/medium) companies were very few and their weight in any ecosystem was negligible. Almost anyone could ignore them and still be successful. Not anymore. PHP CMS were the first example in which I realized this fact (in my opinion). Saludos -- Agustin Benito Bethencourt openSUSE Team Lead at SUSE abebe@suse.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org