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Re: Best of Linux World Coverage: The Redhat Mistake
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by Anonymous on Feb 24, 2005 - 05:42 AM
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Whats funny, from the article you get the idea that Redhat abondoned the free version in favor of creating an enterprise release. Truthfully, the enterprise version existed for a long time before they gave up on the free version. The reality was that people were finding all they needed in the free version and never upgraded to the more costly, less full-featured enterprise version!
Actually, you can't even say that Redhat is the only profitable distribution! Even though I'm still not fond of it, SuSE is there and strong as Novell continues to build upon it. Basically, Novell is starting to kick Redhat's butt. Besides you can't depend on Redhat "being there". They still need to have a free version of Redhat with the Fedora changes to get people testing out their potential "future enterprise products". Sadly, the Enterprise version is too costly and doesn't have the needed newer changes to be used in the environment I'm architecting for aerospace lab control. I've got a very large budget, but just can't see Redhat as viable right now.
Their decision to abandon the free version in favor of the Fedora project was a marketing disaster. It did force many people to more to other distro's. It also insulted the daylights out of the "early adopters" such as myself that has been with Redhat for the last 8 years....
Redhat you screwed up.... Now solve the problem....
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