On Mon, 2005-03-07 at 12:04, Silviu Marin-Caea wrote:
On Monday 07 March 2005 00:35, William H Lugg wrote:
On Sunday 06 March 2005 11:34, James Knott wrote:
Scorpy wrote:
Can this version be used free of charge without limitations in a company if i download it from the internet?
Yes. You can use it on as many systems as you want.
How about this. I'mworking on a project for the Air Force that is planning on taking the SuSE distro, weeding out the stuff that isn't needed (games, office apps, etc.), adding our in-house developed app and DB and repackage it for distribution to various sites (Military bases) for use. The plan is to use YaST to do the installation of our app and DB as well as the standard stuff. Our current take is that we need to hold a purchased SuSE license for each site that will use the app. Is this correct? Note that we aren't looking for SuSE support for these distributed licenses and the users come to us for support.
For this kind of scenario, Novell Linux Desktop 9 powered by SUSE LINUX fits like a glove.
NLD9 is manageable with ZENworks. You can distribute applications with that, you can image stations, modify software configurations "en masse", send patches to all the managed machines after testing them etc. "Mass management" is keyword with ZENworks.
You can use ZENworks for one/two PC's for testing without buying a licence.
NLD9 shares the same base as SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 9. It's called SUSE CORE 9.
And NLD9 is supported for 5 years, while Pro is just 2 years. Going with Pro for what you've described would far, far from optimal.
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