On Wed, 2003-03-26 at 16:35, Brent Fox wrote: > On Tue, 2003-03-25 at 15:07, Andreas-Johann Ulvestad wrote: > > Point being, it's becoming too bloody americanized. > > I'm not sure what you mean here. > > > People are starting to > > look for other alternatives... People are sick of the Microsoft-model with > > Advanced Server, Blabal Enterprise, etc etc etc etc. That was the beauty > > of everything - Red Hat Linux, end of story. > > We started the Enterprise line because many of our corporate customers > were asking for something that moves slower and is supported for a > longer period of time. We are simply responding to customer demands. > We aren't in the business of creating products that nobody wants. > > We realize that businesses and consumers have different needs, so we > have created two product lines to address that. It isn't like we're > discontinuing Red Hat Linux. > > > But now we need to run RHAS > > 2.1 on some things (I think?), if you want to have you rdesktop updated, > > you need to purchase an enterprise edition or face an upgrade each n > > months, etc. > > You can upgrade Red Hat Linux *for free* on an unlimited number of > computers. Sounds like a pretty good deal to me. I fail to see how Red > Hat is doing you wrong. Nobody is stopping you from continuing to run > Red Hat Linux on your systems. [cut] > > > Cheers, > Brent
I wouldn't go so far to say redhat are doing wrong, you do what you think you need to for you business. However, you say that business and consumers have different needs but I suspect a lot of businesses (at least small ones) have gone down the redhat route not realising that you were going to either force them onto a yearly upgrade cycle or have to pay >5 times(minimum) what they way paying for updates for each machine so that they don't have to upgrade each year. Regards, Dave. -- Dr. David Holden. (Systems Developer) Visit: Crystallography Journals Online <http://journals.iucr.org> Thanks in advance:- Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See: <http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html> UK Privacy (R.I.P) : http://www.stand.org.uk/commentary.php3 Public GPG key available on request. -- 99% of politicians give the rest a bad name -- ------------------------------------------------- -- Phoebe-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/phoebe-list
