On 2011-04-20 22:10:28 (+0200), Sebastian Kügler <Sebastian.Kuegler@open-slx.de> wrote: [...]
Your product looks really interesting and "Balsam Enterprise" is a big chance for SLE to take over the market leadership (Look at Red Hat. RHEL is so successfull because there two clones and they allow you to test RHEL till whenever you want... A free SLE-clone would make SLE more open and of course, more successfully, believe me.)
How is "Balsam Enterprise" a clone of SLE ? It's an "openSUSE LTS", not a "clone of SLE", those are totally different things. Or, well, it's *not* an "openSUSE LTS", that's Evergreen.
I think so, too. There's a distinct hole in the market between service levels and pricing of SLES, and openSUSE itself. Very recently, Novell has removed some contractual hurdles, and made it possible for us to offer something like Balsam Enterprise, modeled after how CentOS relates to RedHat, or put simply, an LTS for openSUSE outside the enterprise market. The customer gets more independence and better choice, more of the market is covered. That's a win for openSUSE as base technology and community, as you say.
How is it a win for openSUSE ? Why not use Evergreen as a base and contribute to that ? I don't get it, what's the purpose of doing that on your own by explicitly not seeking collaboration with the community ? What's your advantage in doing so ? /me shakes head cheers -- -o) Pascal Bleser /\\ http://opensuse.org -- we haz green _\_v http://fosdem.org -- we haz conf