On Thu, 2004-04-15 at 09:44, Chris Gehlker wrote:
> On Apr 15, 2004, at 8:48 AM, Ted Gould wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 2004-04-15 at 06:04, Chris Gehlker wrote:
> >> When Red Hat was on the desktop in a big way, vendors could simply say
> >> "We support this program on a default Red Hat installation, period."
> >> They can't really do that any more.
> >
> > Well, I would actually say that the opposite has happened.  Now, Redhat
> > doesn't have to maintain a platform with the 'latest and greatest' to
> > keep the hackers happy.  That is Fedora's job.  Now the Enterprise 
> > stuff
> > can be very stable, and people can say: I support what is in Redhat ES.
> > They've also announced the 'Corporate Desktop' version of Redhat.  I
> > think software vendors are happier with the current Redhat situation.
> 
> This is all true but we weren't talking about enterprise stuff or the 
> 'Corporate Desktop'. We were talking about Mom & Pop businesses: day 
> care in particular. Red Hat has priced themselves out of that market.
----
actually the discussion was about FOSS and end usability - If you want
to only discuss the 'Mom and Pop' businesses, I suppose that it is your
bent.

Whether Red Hat has priced themselves out of that market is debatable
since they offer two products Fedora and RH-WS

HP (compaq) has beaten everyone to the punch by offering Desktop systems
with Mandrake pre-installed.

Craig

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