On Tue, 4 Nov 2003, Marc Schwartz wrote:
On Tue, 2003-11-04 at 09:23, Randy Vice wrote:
> On Tue, 4 Nov 2003, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> > So I don't think RedHat is wicked --
> > I just think they may have made a commercial mistake.
>
> Agreed, and poor timing as well now that Novell/Ximian is buying out SuSE.
> I'll DL Fedora when it's released, but I'm keeping a sharp on
Novell's
> Linux distro, they may be wanting to pick up those of us who don't fit in
> RH's new scheme. Guess the next six months will be an interesting time to
> see where the chips fall.
>
> Randy
I don't see this as being bad timing at all. Actually quite the
opposite, which is why I posted the Novell/SUSE release in the first
place. The writing is on the wall regarding the major commercial
distros, which is why Mandrake will be next.
The commercial vendors must focus their core business model where there
is revenue to be generated. No, not for the shareholders, but *most*
importantly for their employees who depend upon the commercial vendors
for regular paychecks that don't bounce. If you lose your employees, you
can forget about the customers AND the shareholders...there won't be
anything left to have equity in.
Question is, now that RH has "dumped" me, should I trust them a second
time with RHE or go with Novell/SuSE for enterpise level support for my
home server? Or will Fedora support be enough for my taste? Guess time
will tell.
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Randy
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