Re: [Ambassadors] Fedora Server uptake in APAC [was Re: Fwd: tuanta's meeting titled "APAC 2015-05-23"] ended in #fedora-meeting
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On 26 May 2015 at 20:51, Matthew Miller <mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org> wrote:
Do you think we can increase that uptake? Are there places we could
go
where we're not where they would be more popular? Or looking more long
term, are there features which would be particularly appealing to your
market? (We're discussing, for example, a NAS role, for easy
small-network storage management.)
I don't think it has anything to do with features IMO. From the
Indian perspective, the audience we're reaching out to is mostly
students and in very few cases, professionals. Students are primarily
interested in something Ubuntu-like and the workstation product fits
their need - although a lot of them usually find that it doesn't have
flash out of the box, etc and go back to Ubuntu, but that's a separate
topic.
Even outside of the student community, the target audience is
individual users and they usually gravitate towards the workstation
product since they're looking for something to run on their personal
computer. The idea of running their own server is relatively alien
and is limited to office environments, where CentOS/RHEL is the
defacto choice. It also implies that one either owns multiple
physical machines or at least has a powerful enough machine and the
necessary skills to install and administer multiple virtual machines.
That is pretty much an exception rather than a rule; in a majority of
cases, a whole family has one computing device that they share.
Those who do find the server product useful usually have a reliable
internet connection that they can use to download and burn their own
images and hence our replicated images are not of much use to them,
except maybe as a souvenir. That is not a good enough reason to burn
a 1000 DVDs IMO because we're not really achieving anything useful
from it.
I don't know how we could change this. There have even been opinions
about DVDs not being relevant anymore since broadband internet is
quite pervasive, but we have had a steady demand for workstation DVDs.
Siddhesh
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