On 4/9/07, Paul C. Leopardi paul.leopardi@iinet.net.au wrote:
Eg. "The openSUSE Project takes the SUSE Linux platform to the next stage of evolution: by providing an open build service which allows the community and vendors alike to contribute and maintain open source packages which reflect the current state of the art; by allowing the wide community of openSUSE users to experience the best integrated and most comprehensive Linux distribution for home, office and server use; by providing a six-monthly release cycle with a public beta; and by providing the groundwork for Novell to produce fully supported rock-solid, stable and enterprise-class Linux distributions such as SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server."
Perhaps it's high time that the Linux distro communities acknowledge that there are many distro's attempting to enter the enterprise market -- so perhaps it's time to start looking at how one distro can differentiate itself from "the pack" and start highlighting what it has that the others don't. Maybe even have that key differentiating point or feature highlighted in the mission statements and advertising.
For one, the blatantly obvious for SUSE is that it now has the company and (supposedly?) the expertise of the people that put the NetWare NOS and other groundbreaking Novell products that changed enterprise computing (ZENworks, NDS, e.t.c..) into the marketplace. Just a though.