Well, personally I think the price Novell charge for SuSE Linux boxed set and manuals is quite enough. It's is nice to get the 2 years of security updates included in that. Keith ------------------------------------------------------------ http://www.karsites.net http://www.raised-from-the-dead.org.uk This email address is challenge-response protected with http://www.tmda.net ------------------------------------------------------------ On Thu, 21 Sep 2006, Paul Reeves wrote:
To: suse-security@suse.com From: Paul Reeves
Subject: Re: [suse-security] Re: [Discontinued SUSE Linux Distribution: 9.2] On Thursday 21 September 2006 10:15, John Andersen wrote:
Did you ever consider using SLES for _production_ Servers?
Yes, and some of my clients run SLES on my recommendation.
Others are smaller businesses and chose linux because they really didn't want to pay Microsoft's prices, and would not want to pay SLES prices either.
I think this is the crux of the problem. SLES and SLED are way too expensive for non-corporate use. SuSE Professional, with a guarantee of two years of updates and a six monthly release cycle works (or worked?) for a lot of people. Most of whom would happily pay more (I reckon), but not as much as for SLES.
I don't know SuSE could make this work financially, but there is definitely a market there, in between free opensuse and SLES.
Paul -- Paul Reeves
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