Re: Product cycles too short for small businesses (esp. Red Hat)

On Monday 22 September 2003 07:17, David Vehrs wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 19, 2003 at 10:27:22PM -0800, John Andersen wrote:
> > On Monday 08 September 2003 10:14, David Vehrs wrote:
> > > What you want is for Redhat to provide an UPDATE SERVICE to you for
> > > their most inexpensive products for an UNLIMITED time period (well
> > > until you decide to upgrade)??
> > >
> > > If Redhat were to do this, they would quickly be out of business.
> >
> > Why not...SuSE does exactly that.  Not unlimited, but at least
> > three years.
>
> Funny the last few SuSE installs I did came with 1 year support
> contracts, just like Redhat (both are renewable).
>
> Dave V.

But the fact of the matter is that the contract for the SuSE 8.2 Pro
is non binding on you, and  the SuSE ftp site is still offering
updates for 7.2 which must be at least 2.5 years since it was released.

They charge no money for this update and patch service.
Am I missing something, or are you talking about something
altogether different?

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John Andersen