<snip> > Fedora Core replaces Red Hat Linux. It is now a more open programming model > than RHL was, and so the community will have more involvement and there > will be more packages. Red Hat, Inc. will put a lot of effort into helping > Fedora Core grow and improve, the same kind of effort that they put into > RHL, but Fedora Core will not be a "branded" RH product. > > RHEL is Red Hat's primary commercial product which they hope will drive > they revenues, and with which they hope to compete head-on against > Microsoft in the corporate space.
I hope that RH isn't shooting themselves in the foot with this. I think I understand the rationale, but it was the close branding between Red Hat Linux and Red Hat Enterprise Linux that convinced my boss to go ahead and purchase RHEL Advanced Server. I'd already deployed a couple of RH 9 boxes and showed him what RH was capable of, and when he found out that there was a commercial version that had enterprise support, he decided to purchase. He viewed RHL as the "entry level" and RHAS as the "professional/commercial level". I don't think that he's anywhere near alone in that view. I'm afraid that by making this move, RH may do two things: 1) Fedora won't be as popular with the newbies, since it won't have the famous "Red Hat" name, and the distribution will lose newcomers to Suse, Mandrake, and Debian. 2) RHEL will lose market share because they won't have the hordes of people trying/using RHL at home or for small project who then look to upgrade to RHEL. I'm worried, I am. Ben P.S. What'll happen to RHN for the free linux?????? -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
