On Wed, 27 Aug 2003, Stephen Smoogen wrote:
On 27 Aug 2003, Howard Owen wrote:
On Wed, 2003-08-27 at 05:27, William Hooper wrote:
I think Red Hat should drop license fees for their WS product. The window of opportunity is open for Linux on the desktop, due to the maturation of the technology, Microsoft's gouging on licenses, and the lack of compelling new technology upon which they can piggyback new
Sure and Red Hat can go belly up in 2 years because no-one is paying them for all the work they do.
I think people are saying they'd like a third option in between RHLP and RHEL WS, something where the desktop is long-lived (say, three years maintenance) but doesn't have bundled support. Right now, the closest there is to that option is to buy 1 SuSE Professional 8.2 box and deploy it on all desktops (which is actually only guaranteed 2 years maintenance AFAIK, and which sucks in lots of other ways ;-).
Maybe shifting the licensing / "Red Hat getting paid" stuff server-side by selling those customers 100-client proxy servers (or some similar product) would make them happy and still get RHAT revenue.... Or maybe RHAT just can't afford right now to make a product suitable for all customers....
later, chris