Chris Martin wrote:
funded effort on German distbns. . . .I think SuSE's claim to German fame will quickly fall by the wayside too. . . .$$$ knows no borders. . . ..boo hoo.
Well said - I've been preaching that for months, but much less eloquently.
George Yeh, except I've never been to Germany, and their advertising and market control may look much different there than it does here from an American/Canadian perspective. I suspect that in Germany S.u.S.E. _is_ RedHat. I think we NAers are biased by our perspective and tend to _ASSUME_ that because the marketting here for S.u.S.E. seems less strong
On Sat, 6 Feb 1999, George Toft wrote: than RedHat that it is the same type of image in Europe and I think, at least in my case, that _is_ an assumption, nothing more. I do think the tactics in NA will have to change--- I think RedHat has exemplary marketting. Just the freshmeat/slashdot association guarantees for most people at least one 'hint' to use RedHat everyday. And of course we have the Gnome project. Just the fact that many of these pages have RedHat logos on them, as opposed to BSD, Caldera, Debian, or S.u.S.E. logos is an 'influence'. I mean RedHat is an everyday word in the Linux community because they are so closely aligned with things that are of interest on a DAILY basis to Linux users. S.u.S.E. and Caldera do stuff of great importance as well, but you just don't have occurance to hear and think about things like X-Servers etc on a daily basis unless you are involved in development that relates to that. And if you look at things like LJ, there seems to be one mention of S.u.S.E. for every 5 for RedHat. There are lots of 'psychological' factors, I feel, like the simplicity of the logo and the constant use of the color red, the doggone sheer volume of REPETITION of such a simple name as 'RedHat' that makes it easier to remember than most company names, because it _is_ simple and we here it more often, that also impacts the consumer... anyway,as you can see,.. I'm rambling. It's obviously time for my morning coffee before I bore you further...:-) -M - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the SuSE-FAQ at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A">http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A</A>> and the archiv at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A">http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A</A>>