I disagree. My feelings on this can be summed up in three words.

Bring. It. On

Bring it on, the SuSE community is strong and committed, on top of the quite simply astounding employees at SuSE subsidiaries around the world and at Ximian, there's the PackMan team doing great work across a huge range of packages, up to date GNOME packages from me, Richard doing great work with APT, which could become the official package management method in a community release of SuSE (and not before time. This community is strong, and we're ready to do what the Fedora community have done, and who knows? Maybe do it better!

Bring. It. On.