On Sun, 2003-11-09 at 06:22, Bryan Phinney wrote: > On Sunday 09 November 2003 02:42 am, Jack Coates wrote: > > Anyone interested in this mess should have a look at this article: > > http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/33823.html > > > > They're trying to increase revenues by preventing use of their "desktop" > > offering in the server room. They've chosen a method that cuts off the > > nose to spite the face, but I still think they'll continue to be quite > > successful in the Fortune 500 space for inertial reasons. Only thing is, > > when the Fortune 500 begins to seriously evaluate Linux desktops, they > > won't be running RH. The question is, once they bring in Mandrake or > > SuSE or Fedora for the desktops, what's going to stop them from bringing > > it into the server room too? > > My take on this is that it is more of a branding issue. Desktops need much > more cutting edge, in most cases, than do servers and certainly different > types of supported hardware. RH appears to be attempting to fully > differentiate its offerings, Fedora on the desktop with more cutting edge > releases and by necessity, more buggy software, and the staid, old tried and > true Redhat that goes into the server, has paid support and doesn't depend as > much on the community. > > I don't necessarily think that any of this is a bad idea, at least from the > perspective of creating an OS that is designed for a specific segment.
That's good strategy in the proprietary world, but the open source community around both distributions has to buy into the idea for it to work in this case. How long before "scratch-an-itch" leads to Fedora being a pretty good server platform? Any way, it's all non-Mandrake. On another list, the question has been bringing up all sorts of cross-distribution questions. So, how many people here are using Mandrake as a server vs as a desktop? The general impression seems to be that Mandrake is mainly a desktop OS, which is only used as a server in SOHO environments. -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture...
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