[Menai-LUG] RedHat announcement

[Huw Wyn Jones]

I too think that RH will do OK with this change - thinking about this from
my own businesses point of view I have no problem paying RH £200 for
Enterprise Linux ES, especially if I can load onto multiple machines i.e. my
"live" server and my development box. The up2date utility incorporated into
recent RH releases is brilliant, but must cost a fortune for the company to
provide. Somebody has to pay somewhere down the line !!!

What I find particularly interesting about these recent announcements is the
way Linux is splitting into two camps - the not free but well supported
distros, and the free 'but no official support' versions. Sounds fair enough
to me. Businesses will mostly opt for the officially suported Linuxes whilst
individuals can carry on as usual, chopping and changing as they wish.

In terms of pricing there's still a huge differential between even the new
Linuxes and M$ options, and that's without taking reliability into account
!!!

Martin, what's your view on this with regard to the University ?

Huw