[SC.LUG] So, are RedHat ditching the home user market?

[David Holden]

On Monday 03 Nov 2003 5:16 pm, Mike Stuart wrote:
> Here is a question for the group.
>
> <ramble undertone="rant">
> Are RedHat ditching the home / small business user by dropping the boxed /
> download redhat distribution?
>

Quite simple yes, this has been gone over on the redhat lists. I gave the 
redhat people an earful at the linux expo, a counter argument you hear is 
that redhat needs to make a profit etc.. which is fine its just that they 
went from $60/machine/per year to $190/machine/year and for the server to 
$350/per machine/per year, so thats a 3-6 times cost increase in managing 
redhat systems. 




I hear someone mention choice, thats OK accept once you have gone down the 
line of one distribution for you business changing distribution can be a lot 
of work because they all do stuff slightly differently.


Frankly the way RedHat have ditched the small business/educational/non profit 
sector is pretty poor.


Fedora is not a substitute because it puts you on a permanent upgrade path 
every 3 months.


Personally I'm quite intrigued by Suns Java Desktop, saw a demo of it at linux 
expo and it looked pretty cool for $100/year.


  Dave.




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