"Timothy R. Butler" wrote:
It's disappointing to see the distro going like this, however, price is my main concern, so I must ask... How do those German prices compare to that of previous versions? My main fear is that even if they are the same, retailers might start charging more for the Professional just so they can charge over $20 for the Personal (right now, what will become the Pro edition costs $29 at most retailers I know of).
I sure hope it doesn't become like Caldera and RedHat where the version you want costs as much as Windows (even Microsoft charges only $20 for minor updates). Doesn't make sense paying too much for a free operating system...
At least for the German version, if you buy the upgrade edition (the only difference to the Prof. Edition: 3 handbooks instead of 4, the thick one you already have is not included), you pay _less_ than now for a regular 6.4. For this, you get 3 handbooks (the big one missing), and much more support, and 6CDs and 1 DVD (the DVD has the same contents as the CDs, but if you've a DVD drive you don't have to change CDs all the time, so far there was a different package "DVD edition"). All I can see now that it's announced (I didn't know what it would be myself, because I didn't care too much, not my business here at SuSE) is that at least the Germans get more for less. Only if they buy the Prof.Edition instead of the upgrade do they pay more! -- Michael Hasenstein http://www.suse.de/~mha/ SuSE Linux AG, Nuernberg (Germany) SuSE Inc., Oakland, California (US) -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq