Stephen John Smoogen writes:
I believe those need to be tied into a couple of other questions
1. How does any organization work with these various prominent vendors?
I doubt that this is a very useful question as stated. Even
near-peers like Red Hat itself and Ubuntu are probably corporate
customers of Slack. Is Fedora? If not, that's going to color the
conversation a different hue (ie, the answer may be the same, but I
bet they'll try a lot harder to soften the wording), even though all
of these organizations are also going to be representing a user base.
So I would say to focus on closer peers like Centos and Debian as
(a) better case studies and (b) potential allies.
Your other three questions are right on.
2. What are the interests of said vendors and what are they focusing
on for customer growth?
3. Why did these prominent vendors decide to focus on OS A and B
versus A and B and C and ...
4. What barriers are there for making it work for OS C/D/E/F
Steve