“SuSE Linux today releases its bid for the corporate desktop
market, SuSE Linux Desktop, intended as a stablemate for the
Enterprise Server SuSE released last autumn. Those not wishing to
be unnecessarily confused should note the slight difference in the
tagline from SuSE Office Desktop, which the company released
earlier this year as a more consumer- and small business- oriented
system.“There are of course similarities, not least in the inclusion of
tools to ease migration from Windows, but there are a number of
salient points to the enterprise version. First, it’s much more of
a corporate sale, starting at a five licence pack for £544 or
$598, and it won’t be sold at retail. It also shares a code base
with Enterprise Server, and includes numerous network and
workstation management features of the sort that will attract large
businesses. These, SuSE stressed a number of times at the launch
last Friday, require a skilled admininstrator, as they’re currently
largely text-based…”
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