Am Freitag, 16. Dezember 2005 16:34 schrieb Ralf S. Engelschall: > On Fri, Dec 16, 2005, Bernhard Reiter wrote:
> > This is a problem for customers. They want to have > > a tested Linux (the kernel) and core technologies (like libc, > > filesystem) with certification for a hardware. Now RedHat, Mandriva or > > Novell are charging for this _and_ the applications, like Postfix. > > > > So if I buy Redhat and then use OpenPKG, I am paying for something that I > > do not use, and would like to pay OpenPKG for. Just additionally paying > > for OpenPKG makes this far more expensive of course. > > > > It is not easy to solve this. > > Yes, good catch. You're fully right, because of the stand-alone and > self-contained approach of OpenPKG some (already paid) parts of the > underlying OS are no longer needed. That's a problem but that's the > price of being a cross-platform solution. Technically this is completey clear to me, I am thinking about how to establish a long term model for OpenPKG and this means establishing a business for it. I agree with Adam here. As I wrote as answer to Bill, this is more a problem of the other vendors not offering an unbundled offer for the base that OpenPKG needs. It hurts OpenPKG. Actually OpenPKG trying to be a more stable (=less maintenance; higher reliability) solution for unix-administrator. Thus a longer end-of-live policy seems adequate to me. For my Kolab customers I go around and look for a combination of Hardware + Host Operating System + OpenPKG + Kolab Server It is possible to get Hardware and Host Operating System with a 5 to 7 year support. So OpenPKG's 6 month look really bad in this context. Again I cannot say what to do. Maybe being more careful with announceing full support and guarenteeing updates. (There is a relation to the OpenLDAP thread: Would updates db 4.2 -> db 4.3 work?) Bernhard ______________________________________________________________________ The OpenPKG Project www.openpkg.org User Communication List openpkg-users@openpkg.org
