On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 02:47:21PM +0800, Lito Lampitoc wrote: > Amen to that! I am using Redhat for my servers for a very long time, and > I panic by their decision to stop support for the classic RH, I wonder > what will happen to my servers and it'll be a painstaking effort to > migrate my RH boxes to a new distro like Debian. But I think their > decision is right, for if I own a company like RH with a lot people on > their payroll, it's impossible to survive without a commercial version > and SLA. I think merging with the Fedora Project and owning the > trademark is a good decision, it is beneficial to both the community and > RedHat itself. Meantime, we're planning to migrate to RH Enterprise, to > make things easier and to pay homage to the free wonderful distro that > helps us through the years.
True, but I think this is a really silly move marketing-wise. The biggest thing Red Hat had going for them is name recognition. When you say Linux these days everyone almost always thinks in the same breath "Red Hat". When you have a distro like "Fedora Core 1", that just doesn't have the same sort of ring to it. Nothing in the name even tells you that it's actually a Linux distro! They could have called it Red Hat Fedora 1 (a.k.a. Red Hat 10), or if they had trouble with the trademarks, perhaps even Fedora Linux 1.0. Bob Young understood this very well, too bad his successors don't seem to share this vision. Good luck on migrating to RHEL. It can become really expensive, though not as expensive as MS-based solutions (yet), as some of our enterprise clients have discovered. -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
