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Corporate LTS (out-of-date, rock solid, stable platform for corporate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.
It's five years from now. Corporate Q Suit has called a meeting to
consider upgrade options and Techy J Harddrive says: "We could use
*buntu." "That's the free one isn't it? Isn't our competiton using that?
What are the options?" "Well there is a Standard and a LTS version."
"Which one is the corporate version?" "LTS." "How much is a support
package?" "Well Canonical - the 'makers' of *buntu - sell one for $XX
per seat."
I struggle with "LTS" as a powerful and compelling brand name (that's
what it is) in the corporate space. Without having done the research, my
gut tells me some form of "Ubuntu Corporate Edition" would work better
for some target markets.
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