There is a survey at the following site, and only some questions are about home users. May be point "7) Other thoughts" a place to give our opinions about Pro version. http://www.novell.com/news/leadstories/2003/nov3/ James Ogley wrote:
The only thing that concerns me is that the press release and webcast have a very strong interprise focus. They (Novell) mention the desktop (implying non-interprise users) but it appears that their primary focus is interprise. Maybe that is just all I read/heard. I am still holding on to hope but am quite skeptical.
That's Enterprise ;)
(ahem, sorry, pedant hat off)
You may have noticed that over the last few years, all anyone has ever mentioned regarding Linux has been Enterprise-support, Enterprise-ready, Enterprise-standard, Starship-Enterprise (ok, not the last one)
That's where these companies make their money. Do you really think that selling boxed copies of SUSE Professional pays the salaries of however many people SUSE employ these days? No, it's the sales of SLES, especially on the Big Iron systems, it's Professional Services to (yes, you guessed it) Enterprises.
What the consumer level of distribution does is it drives forward development, the Enterprise level of distribution doesn't get updated as often, in the name of stability, but the development work needs to be done somewhere. It builds mind share. It does make some money, but nothing like the Enterprise stuff.