2009/1/18 David Tremblay <david at ngowiki.net>:
> The situation in commercial Linux Market is easy to boil down :
>
> a) the first to enter the market and the first contributor to open source
> project starting with the kernel, gnome and such
The same thing goes for OpenSolaris. Sun entered the FOSS world too late.
>: Red Hat. Anyone who does
> something serious with linux usually go with Red Hat. They have a community
> project called Fedora that has some interesting features (online desktop,
> virtualization, clusterization). Almost all Red Project are free and open
> source. They also have a desktop but who actually have seen it ?
I agree. At least in US and Japan, as far as I can tell, In the business world,
Redhat( RHEL) is the de-facto distribution. Other distributions have a little
market shares and low attention. Gentoo and Debian are considered toy projects
> b) Novell Suse is the other one who use to be the contender but Novell is
> hardly an OSS company they have tons of proprietary applications. They just
> happened to buy Suse and enter the Linux market with it. They also had to
> get help from Microsoft so you can also buy Linux Novell from Microsoft if
> you want. . They have a community project called OpenSuse, it's good and
> have also an interesting control panel called YAST.
I just want to repeat: They are too late.
>
> c) Canonical with ubuntu who's trying to eat some market share starting by
> the desktop (which is different from the two others) had some success but
> still has to prove it. There's no "community project" in Ubuntu unless you
> consider debian this way (which isn't). You can use vanilla Ubuntu LTS in
> your mission critical systems (you would not do that with openSuse and
> Fedora) Almost all Canonical projects are also Free and Open source.
> The problem with Ubuntu/Canonical is they need to contribute more upstream.
Rehat has to do it and Redhat is in the topten of contribution to
major projects like
Kernel and gnome. Every FOSS companies want to contribute their code
to upstream,
esp. the Linux kernel project.
> My conclusion is : if you want to build your infrastructure around a
> commercial linux and you care about freedom and want nothing to do with
> Microsoft you either go with the market leader (Red Hat) or the smaller but
> quite bullish and "sexy" contender (Ubuntu/Canonical)
In the real world, I have to agree with you( but Andre doesn't xD).
However, companies those have Unix in-house experts, a distribution will
not be a problem because they can handle every from source code.
Please encourage the use of FOSS/Linux in Vietnam so I can find
a job in Hanoi( I am working on it, really).
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