On Sunday 09 November 2003 02:42 am, Jack Coates wrote: > Anyone interested in this mess should have a look at this article: > http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/33823.html > > They're trying to increase revenues by preventing use of their "desktop" > offering in the server room. They've chosen a method that cuts off the > nose to spite the face, but I still think they'll continue to be quite > successful in the Fortune 500 space for inertial reasons. Only thing is, > when the Fortune 500 begins to seriously evaluate Linux desktops, they > won't be running RH. The question is, once they bring in Mandrake or > SuSE or Fedora for the desktops, what's going to stop them from bringing > it into the server room too?
My take on this is that it is more of a branding issue. Desktops need much more cutting edge, in most cases, than do servers and certainly different types of supported hardware. RH appears to be attempting to fully differentiate its offerings, Fedora on the desktop with more cutting edge releases and by necessity, more buggy software, and the staid, old tried and true Redhat that goes into the server, has paid support and doesn't depend as much on the community. I don't necessarily think that any of this is a bad idea, at least from the perspective of creating an OS that is designed for a specific segment. -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer
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