On Mon, 3 Dec 2001, Schlomo Schapiro wrote: > Hi, > > I also tried to talk to them (and I speak German !) to no avail. I told > them that their local importers are doing them a dis-service. But they > told me that they have long-running contracts and that's it.
Who is their local importer? Last time I looked at their site, there was a link to an Israeli reseller. The site of the Israeli reseller had no mention of SuSE (only of Mandrake, if you bothered digging deep enough into the site). Do you see any SuSE in any store? Do you see any Redhat or Mandrake? > > I don't think that the problem is political, though. I see two major > problems: > 1) Israel is very RedHat centric (we are soooo American !), therefore > there are not so many (almost NIL) people who would buy SuSE SuSE sells pretty well in the US. Mandrake (originally french) is also doing well. Maybe some people here have problems with German products (no flames please, I'm only stating a fact), however I don't think that this is reflected in the sales of FolksWagen. > 2) SuSE doesn't bother to have importers in many countries. They are just > open for importers to make business with them. I imagine that the > Situation in Cyprus or Poland is not much better than here. It's just our > bad luck that we got an "Israeli" SuSE importer. Hmm... > > Also, note that $130 seems pretty close to the SuSE price if you would > order from them directly (from Germany). > > I once ordered a package directly from them for my work and it > was all very well, except the 60 DM shipping cost. 130$? If they don't start handing out evaluation CDs, (almost) no-one in Israel will bother with that. -- Tzafrir Cohen mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
