Tim Morris wrote:
My understanding of what SABDFL has said is that there will never be an
"enterprise" version with additional features available only at a charge
(the Red Hat model). I wasn't suggesting that a "for-cash enterprise
version" was in the pipeline, rather that the brand (and more
specifically in this case the brand design architecture) may not support
multiple diverse audiences. Given Goldman Sachs and [EMAIL PROTECTED]
and blank piece of paper I wouldn't go through a brand development
process and come to the _exact_same_answer for both.
To word it differently, imagine two parallel products - *-buntu
Corporate LTS (out-of-date, rock solid, stable platform for corporate
applications/server) and *-buntu Community (the new new bling bling) and
where both are free and both share the same underpinnings. As far as I
am aware, my hypothetical *-buntu Corporate LTS could even emerge as
Cannonical Linux.
We have two parallel distros: the standard Ubuntu releases, which are
supported for 18 months, and the LTS, supported for 5 yrs (servers) and
3 yrs (desktop).
This way of providing to different needs is much better than the two
separate products, business and community, which sounds like the Red Hat
/ Fedora fudge.
Regards
John
--
ubuntu-marketing mailing list
[email protected]
https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-marketing
