On Thu, 10 Jun 2010 10:39:50 +0200, Martin Schlander
The enormous mindshare and hype that Ubuntu is getting in the home user market (virtually unopposed), will let them grow and over time gain larger inroads in the more profitable enterprise market too, and become a real competitor for Novell - despite having an inferior product.
Publicity. Exactly.
And while this is happening Novell are obsessing about Red Hat and resting on their laurels. Instead of managing openSUSE like a real product, they're treating it like a Fedora.
The idea seems to be that techies, sysadmins and enthusiasts don't really care about polish, ease of use and stability. But that's wrong.
My take has always been that with 5% more end user friendlyness, openSUSE would be 100% more successful in the home user market - and this would have a very positive spill-over effect on SLE sales - because sysadmins and IT-buyers are consumers too when they go home.
They also need more polish before release. They treat opensuse as a preview of SLE, and the users of opensuse as lab rats. That attitude produces sloppy releases with too many annoying bugs. -- Web mail, POP3, and SMTP http://www.beewyz.com/freeaccounts.php -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org