workstation marketing - hardware

[Stephen John Smoogen]

On 23 October 2014 11:14, Paul W. Frields <stickster at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 02:57:14PM -0400, Máirín Duffy wrote:
> >
> >
> > On 10/22/2014 02:49 PM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
> > >OK I am showing my age, but ultrabooks do not fit my definition of
> > >workstations. A workstation is something I am going to be sitting in
> > >front of day in and day out 10 hours a day doing compiles and debugging.
> > >A Zenbook is something that I wouldn't think of running anything cpu/ram
> > >intensive on as it wouldn't have the cooling capacity to keep its brains
> > >from frying. Or has the definition of workstation changed?
> >
> > This is a totally reasonable point; I'm not sure. I know the target
> audience
> > is developers, but don't a lot of developers use their laptop as the
> primary
> > machine and build on resources accessible on the network and/or heavier
> > stuff in a lab or at their desk?
>
> Right -- today's developer tends to be highly mobile and using
> resources elsewhere.  Or at least that's what we're led to believe if
> any tech press or slant is to be believed in The Real World.
>
>
Actually that is the hyped up view. The majority of developers are still on
Windows XP laptops from 2003. They just don't frequent coffee shops, look
young and picturesque, or do well on GQ magazines. However because they are
on Windows XP, they probably aren't what we are going to convert in mass
droves either :).



> > It's the actual desktop of the developer that the workstation product is
> > concerned with, right? Which would be mostly targeted at laptop? Or am I
> > misunderstanding?
>
> I think the conventional use of "workstation" in the past is not
> necessarily what we want to get stuck on here.  I agree that a slim
> and sexy laptop fits the image we are trying to portray with Fedora
> Workstation.
>
>
No problem. I just needed to reset my world view of the audience we are
going for.


-- 
Stephen J Smoogen.
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