Hi, PF1/REL imported them last time I checked (by phone). I saw it also once in a shop in JM (an old version, of course).
And, they actually do have an excellend Evaluation CD (nobody else has s.th. like this !): It boots a live filesystem from CD with all bells and whistles installed. Including proper setup and it saves all the data + your home dir on the local disk (vfat partition needed). I think this is a very good solution for the evaluation problem and people who want to suck from this a normal installation can just boot it and copy it over to their hard disk (and do normal RPM installs afterwards). Schlomo PS: Download it from ftp://schapiro.org On Mon, 3 Dec 2001, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > 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. > > -- Schlomo Schapiro Senior System Administrator MobilEye Vision Technologies Ltd. 24 Mishol Hadkalim St., Jerusalem, Israel Telephone: + 972-2-586-6989 Ext. 131 Mobile: + 972-55-767898 Fax: + 972-2-586-7720 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW: http://www.mobileye.com ================================================================= 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]