-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 houghi wrote: > On Mon, Apr 17, 2006 at 01:24:01PM +0200, Pascal Bleser wrote: >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> Thomas Hertweck wrote: >>> jdd wrote: >> ... >>> Back to Linux: I think that the version numbers of SuSE distributions >>> were not always driven by "technical" aspects but by marketing instead >>> (at least partly). And, maybe, they still are. When RedHat releases an >>> Enterprise server 10, Novell needs also something with a version number >>> 10 at the end of the day. And so on. >> Exactly. > > If they are only sometimes followed by technical aspects, what were they?
They're never. >>> In summary: the whole topic about version numbering is more complicated >>> than one might think as it has of course some commercial side-effect. >>> This list is mainly looking at this topic from a "technical" point of >>> view. But in order to come up with a solution that suits everyone (if >>> it's going to be changed at all), one needs to include the marketing >>> guys in this discussion... >> 100% ACK. >> >> It's totally useless to discuss/drive that here, IMO it's outside of our >> scope of action and influence. >> >> That's something the Novell marketing dept decides, and I don't see them >> discussing this with us. >> >> Pointless, let's discuss things we can actually have influence on or do >> ourselves. > > I beg to differ. First I would like to hear what the decision process is. For what ? You assume marketing and sales has to do with a process. That's a wrong assumption IMO ;) > Just saying 'oh, we can't change is' is not something I am just accepting > like that. I will accept it when somebody from SUSE (or Novell Marketing) > tells me that THEY decide and not us and that we have no say in it. It's like that, because it's 100% marketing in my experience: 9.0 was a 8.x 9.1 was a 9.0 10.0 was a 9.4 10.1 was a 10.0 > So what is the decision making here? Just look at the competition and then > follow them? Is it all 100% marketing, or is there some technical choice > as well. If it is all marketing, why do we not have SUSE Linux 11.0? Because it's SLES 10 and SLED 10, I guess. cheers - -- -o) Pascal Bleser http://linux01.gwdg.de/~pbleser/ /\\ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _\_v The more things change, the more they stay insane. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFEQ4L1r3NMWliFcXcRApZSAJwOVf1m2Yhg2HgIKCCSk/DHo52X0ACglNrP azJT67vZ0cp6FWOjskCH1GU= =hoRA -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
