On 02.12.2013 13:10, agustin benito bethencourt wrote:
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.
Why would you "base your business" upon a distribution? There is no such thing, except in rare cases. Distributions are "just there", a vehicle. Apart from that, customer simply expect that the "Free Software company" supports the distro they want anyway. Nobody talks about differences or "distro A is better than B" any more. The big plus from the past that distros had, which was the fact that the distros brought the software to many people on CD, melt away in the internet sun. Moreover, for quick young companies it has disadvantages if the product is shipped on a distro because user get old versions soon and there is hardly a way to push version updates through distros. From my experience as somebody who has to build bin packages of a product of a "small opensource company" I can tell: Customers mainly ask for Ubuntu, CentOS and Debian. If we as company get in touch with openSUSE it is because we pushed it during the POC phase. I can not remember that somebody asked for openSUSE on the server. People stay away because they don't know or because there is no LTS (in their opinion). We should not dream the "all the FOSS companies will help us" dream. IMHO. regards, Klaas -- ...und freier Mut gebiert die Tat! Erich Mühsam. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org