On Thu, 4 Aug 2005 02:05 am, Sid Boyce wrote:
Please let the lizard continue living in the box.
If you read the article, it states that SuSE will continue to sell boxed distributions.
That's good news if the boxed versions are not sawn off versions under the name of SuSE Pro. The move tells me they don't make much money from private sales, it's the corporate buyers with maintenance contracts that bring in the money, so that may be the focus.
At a meeting with some Novell and Suse people, they told the story of Novell's reaction to seeing the print run for the first Novell-Suse Pro release. They thought there was a typo and the numbers were 100 times too high. They just couldn't believe sales at that volume. So don't discount the numbers of boxed lizards that sell. BTW, The Novell people also admitted that taking on Suse has re-invigorated Novell. Pretty obvious really. -- Michael James michael.james@csiro.au System Administrator voice: 02 6246 5040 CSIRO Bioinformatics Facility fax: 02 6246 5166 Go Novell, keep hitting SCO with writs.