On Tue, 2003-09-23 at 07:07, Johnathan Bailes wrote: > I don't know I tend to agree with the original sentiment. In comparison > to both linux distros and the competition from closed sources the RHE > price tag seems a bit high and at the same time fedora might seem a bit > too bleeding edge. You are going to have some big markets for linux in > the small to medium size deployment areas running around and trying out > other choices. This is bad.
Agreed. > We use Suse at work here and the professional version is like about $70 > bucks. The question will be is the extra $100+ worth it? Even more expensive if you're looking at going from RHL + RHN basic to RHEL "ES" or "AS". > Most firms are not going to look at the fedora choice seeing it as a > bleeding edge desktop style distro. Not what they want on their web > servers. I'd say this is a reasonable assumption. > Yes, the turn over in terms of boxed units is too high and there needs > to be another choice. > > However, at the very least, there should be a entry level boxed RH > product that is stable and can be seen from a corporate IT standpoint as > a branded RedHat product to deploy on their dns, ftp, http and other > basic servers that may not be seen as warranting a Enterprise price > tag. Otherwise, RH is going to lose big market share to Suse on this > front. IMHO and all that. I think there needs to be something like this as well - something between Fedora and the Enterprise offerings, although I think a boxed set is optional. Something with a ~1 year release/support cycle, a little more mature than Rawhide and less costly than RH's Enterprise offerings. Something, in short, like what many of us were probably expecting when RH announced their "community" releases beginning with RH9. Perhaps Fedora will live up to and exceed these expectations - time will tell. My plan *was* to continue using the RHL releases coupled with RHN basic subscriptions to keep my clients & servers current. I looked at purchasing the "basic" edition RH's ES line, but at $350/year per server that's currently out of my price range, so I went with several RHN basic subscriptions. Since these subscriptions don't expire until next year, I'm going to adopt a "wait and see" stance for now. I'll experiment with the Fedora releases and see what comes of all these changes. -Eric -- Eric Sisler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Library Applications Specialist Westminster Public Library Westminster, CO USA Linux - Don't fear the Penguin. Want to know what we use Linux for? Visit http://gromit.westminster.lib.co.us/linux -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
