Jay Nugent wrote: > Greetings, > > On Tue, 28 May 2002, Net Llama! wrote: > > >>Ahhh..so Caldera has finally thrown in the towel. > > > I don't think so. I suspect that the 4 distibutions have *finally* > alligned their distros to meet the LSB specification and can now *share* > in the manpower cost of releasing package updates (since they should all > now be able to use the same packages interchangably). > > This should not sink Caldera, but strenghten it!
I doubt that. Now, instead of having to compete against 4 entities, Redhat has to compete against one. Redhat was already starting to show indications that it had its crosshairs on each of them individually. Now it has to track a single entity, and go in for the kill. Less competition *never* helps the marketplace. There is no way that a non-destructive upgrade path can be provided for each of these 4 company's "legacy" products to their new "super" distro. Home users may not care too much, but enterprise users are going to sh!t bricks. Furthermore, anyone who hated any of the 4, isn't going to want to try out a product that is released by them collectively. If you are sickened by Redhat's methods, would you feel less sickened if Redhat started doing a "team release" with Mandrake? If Debian's religious zealotry rubs you the wrong way, are you going to feel less offended if they start teaming up with Lycoris? Additionally, this looks like an act of desperation. They're all admitting that they didn't have the resources to survive on their own. Working together is going to compound their negative qualities. IMO, what hurt all 4 of these companies wasn't the quality of their engineering departments, but everything else they did (of failed to do). Being forced to reconsile alot of crappy internal & external practices is going to further strain each of them. I could be wrong about all of this, but somehow i don't think I will be. A year should be ample time to see if this is going to be beneficial to the quartet. If they haven't gotten their act together by next June, they never will. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ L. Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Step-by-step & TyGeMo: http://netllama.ipfox.com 6:45pm up 40 days, 1:36, 4 users, load average: 0.03, 0.13, 0.14 _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
