On Wed, Apr 30, 2003 at 11:55:11AM -0500, Curtis Rey wrote:
It's about time! I'm tired of only hearing the RH fanboys in the U.S. (nothing wrong with RH - I'm just biased and want to see SuSE compete in the market place, tired of seeing RH only ads, etc...).
I think SuSE has much more to offer and they have been relatively conservative in the marketing and advertising front. I don't want it to become like so many American companies where the marketing/advertising divisions of many U.S. companies have a bit too much "carte blanche" when it comes to the company direction and product line (not to mention the habit of "over" hyping things that the developers can't logically deliver - can you say M$?).
I would be happy to see SuSe become more popular. However, that popularity has hurt RH, I think. I'm not yet a user of SuSe but I'm considering it because of the latest change in direction of RH. I'm glad that they have the exposure they do in the corporate arena, but they have now decided that they will send all freely-available distributions to end of life 12mos after their release. Given the pain for us small business to upgrade, that's overly frequent. I've been running RHL 7.2 (with security updates) for probably 2+ years. They have their Enterprise solutions, but they are pricey for the small business that just wants a stable system with security updates and doesn't need any hand-holding. I'm considering SuSe because I can buy the Professional boxed set for $80 and that will have security updates for 2 years. I'd rather see 3, but I find 2 much more livable than 1! I'm going to be unhappy if SuSe follows the same path and in 2 years they will only support their distros for 1 year unless you want to subscribe to their network. Is commercialism the natural evolution for all linuxes? I hope not... -Michael -- A billion seconds ago Harry Truman was president. A billion minutes ago was just after the time of Christ. A billion hours ago man had not yet walked on earth. A billion dollars ago was late yesterday afternoon at the U.S. Treasury.