I think you will find the Universities using and paying for Solaris/
RHEL/SUSE because they use software that requires it and they would
rather not hassle with installing the software on unsupported
platforms. Sure there are some Universities with both the budget and
the man power to support variants and even push those variants.
All the major engineering, design, chip design, board layout etc
software runs on Solaris/RHEL/SUSE and is only supported on those
platforms. The Universities do not want to graduate students which
are incapable of finding jobs and they would rather avoid the whole
which linux platform wars so they go with what is supported. Allowing
them to focus on teaching the students how to use the tools rather
than teaching them why or how linux functions/works.
On Mar 30, 2009, at 11:32 PM, Chris Penn wrote:
At my university, many of the departments pay for RHEL, Suse and
Solaris. Our school has a campus contract for RHEL and Solaris. I
personally prefer the community supported distros. I make money with
Linux, maybe RHEL just need to to evolve a little.
Chris...
On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 12:55 AM, John R. Hogerhuis
<[email protected]> wrote:
Which raises the question, how do you make money on it? When is the
last time anyone here paid for a license to use a desktop Linux
distro? Well, I guess there's the SLED folks. Redhat aficionados tend
to use Fedora or CentOS from Cheapbytes on the desktop. Everyone else
uses Ubuntu or some other Debian based distro.
Perhaps the OS must be a loss leader for services and proprietary s/
w packages?
Or is it supposed to be OEM deals ala Xandros on the EEE PC?
-- John.
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