[NTLUG:Discuss] @#$%^&*! redhat up2date!!!!!

[Bob Byron]

No, I was directing this towards your post.  Every company is in 
business to make a
profit.  RedHat is no different.  If they offer nothing of value over 
the RedHat Personal
version (now released/rebranded as Fedora), then no one will by RedHat.  
As it is,
RH caters to the business market not the personal market, they now let 
Fedora do that.
RH sells services and add on tools to help maintain Linux from an 
enterprise wide
perspective.

I don't use RH enterprise, but the value is there for those corporations 
that need a
higher level of support/commitment to the product.  It takes time and 
money to
certify that you have a system that is highly available.  (I'm not 
saying that Fedora
isn't, it just does not have the certification behind it.)  Besides, 
when another
vendor needs to contractually back their own product, say Oracle for 
instance,
do you think they are going to guarentee it to run on Fedora or RH 
Enterprise?

RH is what it is.  It fills a need.  As long as it accommodates a need 
then RH will
stay in businees.

Bob

Paul Ingendorf wrote:

>Maybe you were thinking of another post when you clicked reply to mine?  I
>didn't mention fedora nor say there was anything wrong with it.
>
>My post was a simple explination of why people have a bad taste in their
>mouth when it comes to those two little words "red hat".
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: discuss-bounces at ntlug.org [mailto:discuss-bounces at ntlug.org]On
>Behalf Of Bob Byron
>Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2004 9:13 AM
>To: NTLUG Discussion List
>Subject: Re: [NTLUG:Discuss] @#$%^&*! redhat up2date!!!!!
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>
>I just don't understand this point of view.  What is wrong with Fedora?
>I am using it, it works
>great.  It is everything that RH 10 Personal should be, end of story.
>
>With YUM underlying the up2date facility in Fedora, I am keeping as up
>to date as one can.
>
>It is clear to me that RH made a *very wise* and *shrewd* move.  They
>took RH Personal and
>gave it to the open source community.  Wow!!!  Isn't that what we all
>want?  The name change of RH
>10 Personal to Fedora makes a lot of sense too.  The Fedora trademark is
>not the RedHat
>trademark.  This means the Fedora trademark can go by a more lenient set
>of guidelines for
>its use, and RH retains the more strict and, yes, valuable trademark in
>"RedHat".
>
>RedHat is the commercial version with enterprise support.  Many
>corporations require
>an OS that is supported by a company.  RedHat is made for them.  Fedora
>is the
>open source version with community support.  I think it is great.
>
>Bob
>
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