Proposal for the new Fedora Project

[Mike McGrath]

On Fri, 1 Oct 2010, Christofer C. Bell wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 11:04 AM, Mike McGrath <mmcgrath at redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> > I'm pretty sure we ship an enterprise server product.  Not a general
> > purpose one.  This shift would focus efforts to virtualization (RH has
> > that) cloud computing (RH is working on that) and middleware (RH has
> > that).  The synergy abounds.
>
> Red Hat loses in the end because of the nature of FOSS software.
> People use FOSS because they want to "own their computers" or as you
> put it "own their destinies."  By shifting the Fedora focus to the
> cloud, you lose your user base and Red Hat loses the benefits Fedora
> provides towards polishing the enterprise product(*).
>
> SaaS is nothing without the first S (software).  Who takes over the
> first S when Fedora is moving to cover the second S (service)?
>

Fedora won't be moving to cover the second S, we're providing the first S
so others can provide the second S.  I'm not saying drop the OS, I'm
saying thin it.

	-Mike