On Tue, 01 Oct 2002 16:46:47 -0300 "Federico Voges" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Tue, 1 Oct 2002 15:38:58 -0400, Lee wrote: > > >On Tuesday 01 October 2002 11:25 am, you wrote: > >> How is this an about server sales following a good desktop? This one > >is> more like RH being the dominant server Linux now wanting to take on > >> Mandrake, et. al. on the desktop. Just what Ransome Love was trying to > >do,> except that the economy and his own public relations ineptitude got > >in the> way. > >> > >> > > > >I don't think so. 3.1 as a desktop is more of an aftert hought than an > >attempt to capture the desktop market. After 2.4 and burning his bridges > >behind him by insulting the desktop users Love and company made a great > >hullaballo about emphasis on big money business server and service > >markets. > > Sorry, but OL 3.x Workstation (notice the change from "desktop" to > "workstation") was targeted to developers. Someone has to develop the > apps you run on the server (be it COL 3.x server or OpenUNIX 8 using > LKP). It was never meant to be a desktop and, AFAIK, it was part of the > plan from the start. dead horse abuse: That was the hype. Yet, as a developer, I am struck by the lack of so many libraries. Some are on the supplamental CD (e.g., gnome and all), but that is a dead give-away that they were not part of the core distro design. Also, as a developer, it is hard to just use libs that are a couple of years old. Developers, by their nature, must stay up with the latest in the tools they use. Caldera made a snapshot of often outdated-at-release tools and then have no mechanisim (which could include fostering user support, no one expectes Caldera to do it all themselves) in place for maintaining 3.1 as a development platform. Of course, if you only develop for 3.1, then you are set. Or so you would think. Want to compile a new app? It probably needs versions of libs/tools that are newer. Fact of life. The stable Caldera platform need not itself be made with cutting edge development tools. But not providing the developers you want to use your system with these tools is a big oversight. Developers are pretty smart and can usually get and install these tools themselves. But this begs the question: if you have to locate, maintain and install the tools you need, just what is this development platform providing that makes it a development platform? JMTCW > Anyway, it doesn't matter anymore, does it?? :) As long as the UL base has as a target the desktop. Otherwise, based on past performance, I doubt Caldera will target this themselves with add-ons. Still, I am taking a wait and see approach. I would love to be suprised. OK. I know I will, but how about pleasantly this time... > > Bye! > Federico Voges > Socio gerente -- +============================+===============================+ | Roger Oberholtzer | E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | OPQ Systems AB | WWW: http://www.opq.se/ | | Erik Dahlbergsgatan 41-43 | Phone: Int + 46 8 314223 | | 115 32 Stockholm | Mobile: Int + 46 733 621657 | | Sweden | Fax: Int + 46 8 302602 | +============================+===============================+ _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
