From: Keith Roberts (keithkarsites.net)
Date: Thu Sep 21 2006 - 04:24:04 CDT

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Well, personally I think the price Novell charge for SuSE
Linux boxed set and manuals is quite enough.

It's is nice to get the 2 years of security updates included
in that.

Keith

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On Thu, 21 Sep 2006, Paul Reeves wrote:

> To: suse-securitysuse.com
> From: Paul Reeves <paulfleetriver.com>
> Subject: Re: [suse-security] Re: [Discontinued SUSE Linux Distribution: 9.2]
>
> On Thursday 21 September 2006 10:15, John Andersen wrote:
> > > Did you ever consider using SLES for _production_ Servers?
> >
> > Yes, and some of my clients run SLES on my recommendation.
> >
> > Others are smaller businesses and chose linux because they
> > really didn't want to pay Microsoft's prices, and would not want
> > to pay SLES prices either.
>
> I think this is the crux of the problem. SLES and SLED are way too
> expensive for non-corporate use. SuSE Professional, with a guarantee of
> two years of updates and a six monthly release cycle works (or worked?)
> for a lot of people. Most of whom would happily pay more (I reckon), but
> not as much as for SLES.
>
> I don't know SuSE could make this work financially, but there is
> definitely a market there, in between free opensuse and SLES.
>
>
> Paul
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