On 9/1/20 12:28 PM, ITwrx wrote:
At roughly a billion $ a quarter in gross revenue(IIRC), i think Red Hat should double/triple down on Fedora and CentOS
it's a head-scratcher sometimes.
particularly when you _talk_ to really interested & capable devs in Fedora-land -- many of whom _are_ RH/IBM employees -- and get the "Absolutely! Wish we could! But we don't have the <mandate|time|money|hardware> to do that" chat.
it's a problem as old as the hills. or at least as old as Vulture Capital investment ;-)
imagine if it were all really well
funded, and got to all the people doing the work.
Couldn't agree more.
But. Sisyphus.
completely dominate market share for smaller
institutions?
Could. Not sure it's on their radar; remains to be seen after the acquisition by IBM, and the repositioning of CoreOS for cloud, etc.
But IME, unless it's *big* revenue _added_ to the bottom line -- which is what sales are generally incented for -- it's a case tone-deafness.
Revenue lost, let alone not considered in the 1st place, is not a priority ... particularly if any one deal is 'small'.
Why would enterprises use another OS/distro if all the
users, admins and devs only/mainly know Fedora/CentOS b/c that's what
they use at school and work.
Fedora distro's positioning & point-release schedule sites nicely IMO between Rawhide & Centos. Mostly (I've a _few_ bones to pick ;-) ).
And the FOSS ecosystem is a great -- and necessary -- gateway to RHEL support & licensing.
Personally, I hope they continue to leverage it, and grow to recognize better Fedora $$support floats all their boats.
But there's no guarantee 'big corps' make sane decisions about their feeder tech & communities.
There are more than a few reasons that we switched production & dev distros ... costly as it's been. And, that I'm keeping my internal DIY-LFS distro production alive and at-the-ready. Just in case ;-)