Paul Reeves schrieb:
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.
The same can be said about our customers - small companies would happily pay 200 $ for the professional version of SuSE to get 3-5 years of updates, one (stable) release per year would be enough. The times are gone where Linux was changing so fast that one needed a new version every 6 month. But SLES is out of reach for small companies, especially in competition with Windows 2003 Server on one side and with SuSE Linux Professional on the other. Greetings, Ralf