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.
Where as I don't find fault with having two "versions" of any distro. I do however find fault with dissing an entire segment of your market/community/contributors just because it's convenient. Which is in many ways what the CEO of Red Hat et al. are doing. If Linux is so lousy on the desktop how come it is that I can use Linux exclusively yet work in a world where all around me are on various forms of other OS's. Basically I interpret what he said as, "Thanks to your devotion over the last 8 years we have a solid product, now fsck off and don't bother us anymore. Your work, time and effort we didn't pay for, has been of tremendous value to us and we no longer think you are worth being concerned about." Maybe I'm wrong, but I'm not alone in this feeling. So to all former RH users "Welcome to Mandrake". James
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