Re: Which Linux?
Scott Burns <scott@mirrabooka.com> writes: > Ronald Cole wrote: >>I'm not so sure that Red Hat is on the up and up with their Enterprise >> product support. RHEL3, for example, doesn't > <SNIP> > > You missed out that you cannot compile all of the packages included in > RHEL3.0 on a stock RHEL3.0 install - you need to download a heap of > extra packages in order to do that. Their aims are dubious at best. Their "value add" in their Enterprise products was supposed to be features, stability, and support. It looks like they are spending too much effort in trying to keep others from competing with them with their own product at the expense of actually providing features, stability, and support. I wonder how long that business model will work for them? Do I want to be a Red Hat Enterprise customer and find out? I guess I'll have to wait and see what distro IBM decides to use for their next IDS port to see if there is any love lost between Red Hat and IBM. -- Forte International, P.O. Box 1412, Ridgecrest, CA 93556-1412 Ronald Cole <ronald@forte-intl.com> Phone: (760) 499-9142 President, CEO Fax: (760) 499-9152 My GPG fingerprint: C3AF 4BE9 BEA6 F1C2 B084 4A88 8851 E6C8 69E3 B00B
"Ronald Cole" <ronald@forte-intl.com> wrote in message news:m38yj19q3b.fsf@yakisoba.forte-intl.com... > Scott Burns <scott@mirrabooka.com> writes: > > Ronald Cole wrote: > >>I'm not so sure that Red Hat is on the up and up with their Enterprise > >> product support. RHEL3, for example, doesn't > > <SNIP> > > > > You missed out that you cannot compile all of the packages included in > > RHEL3.0 on a stock RHEL3.0 install - you need to download a heap of > > extra packages in order to do that. Their aims are dubious at best. > > Their "value add" in their Enterprise products was supposed to be > features, stability, and support. It looks like they are spending too > much effort in trying to keep others from competing with them with > their own product at the expense of actually providing features, > stability, and support. I wonder how long that business model will > work for them? Do I want to be a Red Hat Enterprise customer and find > out? I guess I'll have to wait and see what distro IBM decides to use > for their next IDS port to see if there is any love lost between Red > Hat and IBM. "IBM and RedHat/Sitting in a tree/K-I-S-S-I-N-G ..." Our expereince of selling a FAStT storage solution, and trying to sell x-series clusters, is that IBM loves RedHat and that is always one of the first ports to be done. I guess this is hardly a surprise given its (RedHat's) pre-eminence. The RedHat "Enterprise" model is a worry, and I guess most of we individuals hope that they'll get a bloody nose from it. But big business, like IBM, will probably be hoping they get away with it so they can start making more money out of Linux too. No matter that these people risk killing the Golden Goose (well, Penguin) ....