On Wednesday 13 August 2003 10:01, Stephen Smoogen wrote:
For some reason, I think you answered your own rant. You feel like you are having to make a choice of whether to make a lower quality product (w/o Red Hat) for small businesses to make ends meet. I doubt very much that Red Hat is in any different position. From what I can infer they have aimed for a higher quality product for people who will pay for it, and a community product to try and meet the needs of people who wont pay for it.
A community project is one thing, but when what goes into the community project is dictated by marketing to ensure that the community project won't compete in any way with the "higher quality product" there seems to be problems. Requests for Opteron support, ipvs support and other such things in the community project get denied because these types of things are an "enterprise" level technology, and thus you _have_ to use RHEL in order to get them. It seems that more and more server software will be removed from RHLP in order to "not compete" with RHEL, making RHLP a nonviable platform for smaller businesses who require server technology, but can't afford the AS or even ES premium. $370~ per system, per year is a very heafty price tag for a small business, especially when one of the "selling points" of Linux was that of lower costs....