RH recommends using Windows?

David Holden dh at iucr.org
Tue Nov 4 20:33:46 UTC 2003


On Tuesday 04 Nov 2003 8:10 pm, Alan Cox wrote:
> > I guess this more or less trashes my investment in Linux. Those of you
> > with RHCEs and RHCTs are going to lose the investment of your time and
> > money, as Red Hat abandons support for a Red Hat Linux consumer product.
> > A significant potential market segment is being blown away.
>
> If your business is built entirely on people who can't afford basic
> RH Professional Workstation or RHEL entry level stuff you can't have very
> viable margins anyway I suspect.
>
> Besides, an RHCE/RHCT is worth a lot beyond even Red Hat, just like a Cisco
> certification helps get ISP jobs in non cisco ISP's.
>
> Alan
>

What about businesses that are not currently using Linux one of the arguments 
I had in convincing my boss to go the linux route rather than the Windows 
route was the cost advantage,  RH PW multiplies our current desktop cost by 
three and RHEL by six...

 Dave.



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