On Sat, 22 Aug 2009, Per Jessen wrote:
Boyd Lynn Gerber wrote:
We SMB's really do not have the time to really customize a SLE(D,S) on our own for each industry. We are forced to specialize. Hence this group to pool all our resources to from a united front to offer a Novell alternitive to the current precived best choice Red Hat alternitive that already has a large community and CentOS to RHEL path that looks really good to many business.
Wait. Which SMBs are we talking about - the end-user or the consultancy? I thought we were talking about the end-user. My company doesn't sell or provide openSUSE to anyone - nor SLED/S for that matter. We are an openSUSE user, we use openSUSE as our core platform for servers and desktop.
I am taling about all Small-Medium Businesses. User,
consultancy/resellars. The comments are what I have personally heard from
many different people with regards to any Novell offering, right now. The
biggest concern for any I have told that the lifetime is now only 18
months is very very bad. Tending towards having to find a different
distro and they need longer support.
So back on topic. I am seeking to form a group of users that when joined
form a group with $$$ behind them to gain attention from the upper Novell
management to address the needs of SMB's.
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Boyd Gerber