Novell sees lower profit and revenue

[Collins Richey]

On 8/28/05, Net Llama! <netllama at linux-sxs.org> wrote:
> 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.
> 

Longer support cycles does not mean that the vendor does not provide
critical fixes from Linus' tree. At least that's the way it works in
RH land. Reasonably recent but not still smoking new hardware should
be quite well supported.

-- 
Collins Richey
      Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code ... If you write 
      the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not 
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