On Saturday 26 April 2008 09:33:35 am Philipp Thomas wrote:
On Sat, 26 Apr 2008 09:15:48 -0700, Kai Ponte wrote:
Fire the marketing people at Novell - ever since NetWare 4.x, they've been on a downhill slide and haven't been able to market worth a darn... j/k
If you think that those who could decide such matters or even those that could have influence on them read this ml, I'd like to have some of the stuff you're smoking.
Nope no smoking here. Just in case y'all were wondering - I did actually email both my Novell rep and Novell Customer service..
From: Kai Ponte Sent: Wednesday, April 23, 2008 10:18 AM To: 'Brian Hervey' Cc: 'crc@novell.com' Subject: Question about Laptop Installations
Brian:
I am purchasing five new high-end laptops for me and my staff. I went to Dell and tentatively selected five 64-bit laptops with 8G RAM and 200G hard drives. However, I was unable to select SLED as an option for the OS. My goal is to run these with SLED and Win2K3 running as a development server and XP/Vista as clients under VMware or XEN or VirtualBox.
I'm curious as to why Novell hasn't been marketing to Dell - one of the larger clone manufacturers - and if there is any option available in the future. I would choose another vendor - such as HP or IBM - but Dell is on our master agreement list for hardware.
Thanks!
-- Kai Ponte, Manager Recorder & Management Systems Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk tel:562-462-2706 fax:562-462-2075 kponte@rrcc.lacounty.gov
results are everything
For most manufacturers, Linux on a laptop doesn't seem to generate enough income to justify the effort he has to invest. And I guess even the best marketing folks would have a hard time overcoming such presumptions.
Linux preloaded on servers is no problem, Linux on laptops still is and probably will be for the foreseeable future, sad as it is.
I'm just doing what I can... -- kai www.filesite.org || www.4thedadz.com || www.perfectreign.com remember - a turn signal is a statement, not a request -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org