>> "Alfresco's survey of 10,000 users finds Red Hat adoption tripling, while >> Novell usage stays stagnant. A global survey of open-source enterprise users >> of Alfresco software has found that deployments of Red Hat Linux have grown >> twice as fast as those for Novell SUSE Linux since Novell signed its >> controversial patent and interoperability agreement with Microsoft in >> November 2006." >>
http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3690141 " "This finding suggests that customers may not like the terms of the deal as more information became public," Howells said in a statement. However, in an interview with internetnews.com, Howells admitted that he lacked that empirical evidence to back up his allegation. "All we've got is the raw statistics," Howells said. "We expected general trends to be similar, but what we saw was a big divergence going from the two platforms being almost the same to one tripling in size. We were looking at various reasons for that, and there may be a number of reasons for that but we don't actually know the specific reason." Among the other reasons why Red Hat users may well have increased is the emergence of a new Red Hat release -- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (RHEL) -- which was released in mid-March just a few weeks ahead of when the Alfresco study began. Novell on the other hand had no similar product launch event at any point near the Alfresco study. " _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net
