On Saturday 30 April 2005 12:43 am, Colin Carter wrote:
Scott, I respect your response, and do not mean to be against you, but some of us applications programmers have an issue. Not blaming you... :-) I had a look at your referred site. You are right about the levels offered by SuSE; but there is no level offered for the likes of me: that is a stable, easy to set up O.S. which supplies a good platform for application developers who do not have the time to "mess around" with systems. Don't miss-understand me because I have been keenly involved in developing compilers et cetera.
So you are correct: there is no SuSE level for us. I'll just have to spend more time on the system side. Best regards, Colin
Colin, Don't misunderstand, I'm not saying that I agree with Novell's marketing decisions. I'm just pointing out that SuSE Pro is not designed nor marketed to be a windows killer. The fact that a lot of us may want it to be isn't going to make it so, Novell has their own strategy and frankly, it looks like it is a sound business strategy, so I can't fault them. I love SuSE Pro, but it is never going to be suitable for the normal users of the world when the specific niche it is created for is power users who want bleading edge software that releases every 6 months. My guess is that they see no profit in trying to address that gap in their product line, taking M$ on directly in that mass market would take a huge marketing investment, they can probably get a much better return going after the enterprise. Scott -- POPFile, the OpenSource EMail Classifier http://popfile.sourceforge.net/ Linux 2.6.11.4-20a-default x86_64