On Tue, 2007-10-23 at 18:18 +0200, Eberhard Roloff wrote: > Bryen wrote: > > On Tue, 2007-10-23 at 07:33 -0400, Jorge Fábregas wrote: > >> On Monday 22 October 2007 11:54 pm, Kevin Dupuy wrote: > >>> Mine as well. I ordered it on 10/1. I'm going to call Novell tommorow. I > >>> seem to remember it took a while for 10.2 last year, but not 22 days! > >>> Not to mention they said it was shipping on 10/11 in my email. > >> What bothers me is their lack of response. I went to: > >> > >> http://shop.novell.com/question > >> > >> and provided all my order details and never received any answer. I know > >> they're using "Digital River" as their e-commerce outsource provider but > >> from > >> a customer's perspective they are still Novell for me. > >> > >> I really don't care if I need to wait a couple of more weeks. I just would > >> like to have an idea WHEN will they start shipping. Any update on this > >> Andreas Jaeger? :) > >> > >>> By the way, what country are you two in? I'm in the US... > >> I'm in Puerto Rico (part of the US). > >> > >> Regards, > >> Jorge > > > > Aside from 30 day installation support, what do we get from a purchased > > DVD versus the downloaded version? > > > Well, we get an ever getting thinner documentation in printed form that > once was very good in regard to volume and contents and now is nothing > that you really need to have. > > One less reason to go for Boxes. > > I somehow can hardly understand that the reasons to buy are minimised, > more and more. > > While I understand that enterprise customer are those that have "real" > money, how do they think that Linux was (and is) taken into the enterprise? > > Kind regards > Eberhard > That was my primary reason for buying 9.3. A nice big thick-wad book that I was able to use as a reference. When 10.0 came out, I promptly ordered again, and was disappointed to see a thin book. Since then, I have downloaded instead.
I just thought maybe there might be some additional proprietary software or features in the purchased DVD version to compensate for the decrease in documentation. OH well... -- ---Bryen--- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
