So you're saying that opensuse is not used to generate sales of SLES or SLED in the long run? If that's the case, then how does that fit with the statement that opensuse is an IMPORTANT PART of SuSE's revenue structure?
You're missing the forest for the trees.
The idea is to get the IT departments of businesses to try openSUSE before committing to the steeper price of SLED or SLES.
openSUSE is important as a test bed. Any business that is happy for their IT department to experiment with their servers in this way will be happy with openSUSE and won't bother upgrading to SLES or SLED. The target market of SLES and SLED are Enterprises, who inherently are highly resistant to any change whatsoever and won't bother with an experimental stage with a product that changes all the time, and besides - you can get SLES and SLED software itself for free, and also 60 days access to the update service. Either Novell Sales will sell them after the trial period of SLES/SLED, or they won't, but you can guarantee the only copy of openSUSE installed will be an unauthorized one. And just to be pedantic, the statement that openSUSE is an important part of SUSE's revenue structure wasn't actually made by me, so my statements don't have to agree with it ;-) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org