Novell sees lower profit and revenue

[Lonni J Friedman]

On Sun, 28 Aug 2005, Collins Richey wrote:
> 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.

Exactly.  SuSE seems to be clueless in this regard.

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