Re: long term support
I looked at SLED in place of openSUSE. It was more restrictive in package availability, I don't use gnome and the usability did not approach openSUSE. Our company uses thunderbird across all platforms, not evolution so that is not a plus.
To replace windows we also need to have a lower cost than windows, that is the cost compared to a windows pre-install and 3+ years windows updates, I don't think SLED achieves this.
So although SLED is trying hard, but for business openSUSE with a release with 4-5 years support every 3 years would be my ideal. In fact I would be willing to subscribe to the longer support for the extended support release (make it 2 yrs standard support, subscribe $30 p.a. over 2 yrs).
Ubuntu offer Long Term Support (LTS) for set versions, this is the type of thing that will attract better adoption of openSUSE. If we want to see openSUSE preinstalled by PC vendors, its got to go the life of the machine, the general public could not perform a SUSE update, I still find it challenging after many many years.
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