I've seen recent articles about open-source being more readily adopted in IT -- even including a tendency to use "community" distros rather than "$upported" ones because local skills are improving to such an extent that service calls to RH, SUSE, Canonical etc is not so important.
So, if the market for support evaporates, where is the future of RH et al? Training? I'm wondering if the rpath approach might be the way. Maintaining a "solution" repository sounds like it has some legs. Combines with virtualization, too, no? Does this scale? Is it possible (good?) to prevent your asset/value from diffusing out to mirrors? Even if it works for the server market, how would one pry money out of the desktop? Then, how does one even imagine what the longer-term picture will be like. Will the OS (or computer!) of 2030 even be anything similar to todays? Regards, ..jim -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
