On Saturday, 23 August 2003, at 1:24 am, Ernie Schroder wrote:
SuSE's CEO Richard Seibt chose to demonstrate a high degree of arrogance. In response to CRN's question about Windows to Linux migration, Seibt insisted that "Linux means two companies: Red Hat and SuSE, and nobody else. http://www.distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20030818
Is Meister Seibt taking idiot lessons from SCO CEO Darl McBride?
"Seibt: ... Look at the Unix operating system vendors.There's Hewlett-Packard, for instance, Sun Solaris andIBM with AIX and SCO. They all face competition fromMicrosoft Windows. ... If you think each of the named companies has to increase profitability each quarter, thenit is logical that they think about what the next steps are. It's my view that the industry has decided there is one main operating system competitor to Microsoft, and thatis Linux. Linux means two companies: Red Hat andSuSE, and nobody else. There will be no third distribution that will be supported by the large IT vendors. And from that perspective, even Novell decided not to compete anymore on operating systems. They now migrate all oftheir applications to Linux. This is a two-horse race between Linux and Windows."
I think he's saying Gentoo doesn't exist in terms of outsourceable o/s support contacts. You can buy support from RedHat (and presumably SuSE) that you can't from Gentoo. Gentoo's non-static nature & dynamic updates also, I believe, make it difficult to justify in the enterprise marketplace.
I read that article as the SuSE executives being quite aggressive in their marketing, presumably to sound comparably strong with RedHat, but to be fair I feel that the "arrogance" you describe could be a misunderstanding if English is not Herr Seibt's first language.
Stroller.
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