Novell sees lower profit and revenue

[Net Llama!]

On 08/28/2005 10:57 AM, Bill Campbell wrote:
> Novell also appears to be making serious efforts to encourage ISVs,
> appliance systems developers, etc. to work with SuSE Linux.  A significant
> aspect of this is aggressive pricing for SLES (Suse Linux Enterprise
> System) which has much longer support cycles than the standard SuSE Linux
> retail packages.  The longer support period makes it feasible to install
> commercial systems without having to deal with the Release-of-the-Month
> issues.

Sure, as long as you're not using reasonably recent hardware.  Then 
$DEITY help you as you hit every bug that's been fixed in Linus's tree 
for the past 6+ months.

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