Re: [SLE] Suse 9.2 PRO

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Date: Mon, 07 Mar 2005 18:08:24 -0500

On Mon, 2005-03-07 at 12:04, Silviu Marin-Caea wrote:
> On Monday 07 March 2005 00:35, William H Lugg wrote:
> > On Sunday 06 March 2005 11:34, James Knott wrote:
> > > Scorpy wrote:
> > > > Can this version be used free of charge without limitations in a
> > > > company if i download it from the internet?
> > >
> > > Yes. You can use it on as many systems as you want.
> >
> > How about this. I'mworking on a project for the Air Force that is planning
> > on taking the SuSE distro, weeding out the stuff that isn't needed (games,
> > office apps, etc.), adding our in-house developed app and DB and repackage
> > it for distribution to various sites (Military bases) for use. The plan is
> > to use YaST to do the installation of our app and DB as well as the
> > standard stuff. Our current take is that we need to hold a purchased SuSE
> > license for each site that will use the app. Is this correct? Note that
> > we aren't looking for SuSE support for these distributed licenses and the
> > users come to us for support.
>
> For this kind of scenario, Novell Linux Desktop 9 powered by SUSE LINUX fits
> like a glove.
>
> NLD9 is manageable with ZENworks. You can distribute applications with that,
> you can image stations, modify software configurations "en masse", send
> patches to all the managed machines after testing them etc. "Mass
> management" is keyword with ZENworks.

You can use ZENworks for one/two PC's for testing without buying a
licence.

>
> NLD9 shares the same base as SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 9. It's called SUSE
> CORE 9.
>
> And NLD9 is supported for 5 years, while Pro is just 2 years. Going with Pro
> for what you've described would far, far from optimal.

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