On Thu, 2003-02-06 at 23:23, James Sparenberg wrote: > On Thu, 2003-02-06 at 13:13, civileme wrote: > > On Wednesday 05 February 2003 11:38 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: > > > On Wed, 2003-02-05 at 06:15, et wrote: > > > > I have noticed that Redhat, and M$ has lately published listing > > > > reguardiing expected support cycles, and all of them are shorter than > > > > what most people expect for manufactured products, but this is the way of > > > > things, and even more so with computers, since the hardware is planned to > > > > be obsolete in 3 to 4 years anyway. > > > > > > This is the sweet spot I'm talking about.... IF support cycles matched > > > hardware life it would be IMHO a better proposition. In other words > > > doing support life by series not by release. The the life cycle of the > > > series would more closely match the life of the hardware. The problem > > > now is to hit the sweet spot in Corporate world in such a way that they > > > want/need MDK's support and are willing to pay for it! Product life > > > cycle is cool. I still feel it's a little short. > > > > > > James > > > > > > > the real problem (from my narrow little pinhole viewpoint) is > > > > the need for applications needing all the computing power available. > > > > while most companies got P3 M$ windows boxes, they still use them to > > > > emmulate access to a termanel off the server, or run word. stuff they > > > > could have done with the wyse monochrom termanal they threw away to have > > > > pretty colors. > > > > > > > > > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > > > > > > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > > > > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > > > > > > Well 3-4 years of supporting old things in a system as dynamic as GNU/linux is > > going to co$t. Perhaps the most useful activity to make this happen is to > > form a club for such support and see if you get enough subscriptions to > > support the effort. No one can offer that length of support and remain > > competitive with other distros in terms of selling price. > > > > MIcrosoft could support things for longer because their software does not > > change as often. the win95 kernel and the win 98 kernel were byte-for-byte > > identical. Expect to see MS dropping win2K next January. > > > > (Horrid flash--writers of job descriptions will have fits as they try to > > require "4 years experience" with the latest release of windows or linux) > > Hey fits well with 15 years of Java experience. *grin*. > > > > Happy motoring!!! > > > > Civileme > > Oh my goodness.... Just had a serious thought.... wouldn't it suck to be an mcse right now. Cause if I know M$ it's a whole new program not just a class to "update" your skills.
James
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