On Fri, Dec 03, 2004 at 09:58:20PM -0500, Tom Metro wrote: > Sean Quinlan wrote: > >If your really looking for a replacement to Exhange and all or most of > >it's services I'd recommend looking into SuSE's (now Novell's) > >OpenExchange server. http://www.novell.com/products/openexchange/ > >Getting the full product may be more money than they want to spend... > > Anyone get the business model Novell is using with SuSE? They keep > sending me trial CDs for SuSE (I'm on Novell's mailing list), but who > wants to spend the time installing an operating system on a server only > to have it expire in 60 or 90 days? If it's open source, shouldn't I be > able to run it indefinitely (without support, of course)? > > With RedHat it was pretty easy to find the unsupported free download of > their product. I haven't gone looking for the equivalent from SuSE, but > their marketing sure gives the impression that such a thing doesn't exist.
We had a rep from a Novell OEM a month or so ago visit Toronto's TLUG, and if I recall correctly, the free samples he was handing out of SLES 9 were an n-day trial, but the end of the trial was by the honour system, there was nothing in the code to remove itself or stop working. So, I don't think they will have any real complaint if you run a trial for longer than the official period; and then convert it to real by getting a support license of some sort. (I haven't looked into the sales process for business use of SLES, I just use SuSE Professional and buy the box set every few releases.) SuSE has traditionally made it non-obvious how to download their install disk sets, but that may change now for a couple of reasons. (1) They are providing the entry level desktop as a free download ISO now. (2) They made YaST free source, so there is no longer a business reason to prevent casual access to it. -- _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
