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.
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