Thorsten Kukuk tapped away at the keyboard with:
On Sat, Sep 09, Greg Thomas wrote:
On Sun, 10 Sep 2000, Thorsten Kukuk wrote:
On Sun, Sep 10, Daniel Woodard wrote:
I need some things in Professional like netalk, but $70 several times a year is pushing it for my small enterprise.
You know that a special update version exists which should be much cheaper ?
Yes, but as far as we know so far the Update version will only be available direct from SuSE which wipes out any savings if one buys SuSE 7.0 from a store.
Yes, but as long as the update is cheaper than the version from the store this should be no problem. Since I don't know the US
Except when the shipping costs from Germany would be prohibitive. The Personal Edition 7.0 sells for the same price as 6.4 in Australia ($69 when it was still 'current'), Professional at $110. The price difference between Professional and Personal is less than the freight from Germany. The list price of the Update isn't a big deal -- but add the shipping charges (30 Euro) and the cost to my door runs at about the same as the Professional package. It would make sense (to me anyway) for SuSE to allow the Upgrade packages to go through the same distribution chain as Personal and Professional packages. If SuSE isn't getting the requests for Update packages from its resellers/distributors then we, the existing user community, can ask those resellers to supply and hopefully generate a demand. Or is there some fundamental ("political") issue with supplying Upgrade packages through the usual channels? Let's face it; only a small proportion of current SuSE users *need* 7.0 "now"; I think we can wait a couple of weeks if it helps to establish a channel for receiving future updates as well. How do you want to handle this? Lead or follow? -- Bernd Felsche - Innovative Reckoning Perth, Western Australia -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq