Re: SUSE 9.2: Bad marketing, or extreme suckyness?

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Author: Michael
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To: plug-discuss
Subject: Re: SUSE 9.2: Bad marketing, or extreme suckyness?


Steve Smith wrote:

> I'm regularly bombarded with "information" from Novell/SUSE. Today
> they pointed out a page describing the differences between "SUSE LINUX
> Enterprise Server 9" and "SUSE LINUX Professional 9.2".


I would have to say bad marketing. I have SuSE Watcher running, and I
get updates on a regular basis.

> Here's the page:
> http://www.novell.com/products/linuxprofessional/comparative.html
>
> Taking their page at face value, I can't understand why anyone in
> their right mind would pay for "Pro" -- it supposedly has "limited
> availability" of "security patches" and "No" "software and driver
> updates".


I have to disagree here, I get updates regularly. If I were in Provo, I
would be looking for a new advertisement company, and I would have a
come to Jesus with the IT people to make sure that this 'does not'
happen! After all they did open up YaST this year

>
> Is SUSE Pro 9.2 for people who yearn to be instantly obsolete, and
> pwned in short order? If so, I think I'll hold on to my money... TIA,
>
> Steve
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