<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 23 June 2010 08:29, Robert Ladyman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:it@file-away.co.uk">it@file-away.co.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
They really show that Open Source can work<br>
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<a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/06/22/redhat_q1_fiscal_2011_numbers/" target="_blank">http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/06/22/redhat_q1_fiscal_2011_numbers/</a><br>
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<br></blockquote><div> I liked it when Jim Whitehurst on talking to Wall Street on RHEL 6 that software releases are not revenue events, i.e. upgrade at no cost.<br><br>Open source works so well that Red Hat are no.22 in Bloomberg's Businessweek Top 50 list<br>
<br><a href="http://localtechwire.com/business/local_tech_wire/news/blogpost/7829660/">http://localtechwire.com/business/local_tech_wire/news/blogpost/7829660/</a><br><br>Here is a video of Jim Whitehurst talking about small business and cloud computing to the VAR Guy. Why do people get caught up in this Desktop Linux obsession? It is free you do want to charge anyone for this and it is to be enjoyed by everyone. Open Source companies make their money by providing cheaper, superior services and software to companies that require mission critical software to ensure minimum downtime in their operations which could result in large financial loss if downtime occurred. Another thing, the vast majority of people in the Fedora Project that run their own servers (including Red Hat employees) use CentOS, Scientific Linux or Debian ( some are combined Fedora & Debian maintainers) because it is free and non-mission critical. The reason why I mention the Fedora Project because it is the "Father of Red Hat" (Paul Frield's words,Project leader of Fedora) and is supposed to provide ideas and innovation which is then transferred into stable packages for commercial use that is used by Red Hat . The success of Red Hat is due to the success of the Fedora Project (The Fedora Project is not a beta testing ground for Red Hat, it is the spawn of originality). I will get off my soapbox now. <br>
<br><a href="http://www.mspmentor.net/2010/06/22/small-businesses-how-red-hat-will-attack-microsoft/">http://www.mspmentor.net/2010/06/22/small-businesses-how-red-hat-will-attack-microsoft/</a><br><br>gordon<br><br><br><br>
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