On Tue, 2003-08-12 at 15:36, Jesse Keating wrote:
On Tuesday 12 August 2003 14:33, Stephan Schutter wrote:
> Well, I disagree... for the 90% there is RHL 9.0 etc. and for 10%
> there is the enterprise solution. In an enterprise allmost all the
The problem is, the company I work for caters to these smaller
companies, and provides systems w/ Linux pre-installed and all the
support they need to get up and running. It's becoming increasingly
harder and harder to provide this service based on Red Hat Linux. As
Red Hat strips more and more server quality stuff out of the distro
(tunable kernel VM, ipvs, etc...) and as their business take a stance
that makes it impossible to OEM the RHL product it seems to me that
unless you are a multimillion dollar business, you don't matter to RH,
likewise if you don't sell products to multimillion dollar businesses
then you as a provider don't matter to RH. It's getting to the point
that as a company, we'll have to switch to some lower quality product
to be able to have the relationship necessary to OEM their product and
it just stinks.
</rant>
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.
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