RH9 disks on the net.

[Aaron Howell]

RedHat concerns me in that respect.
Their recent move to only supporting distributions for 12 months in an attempt to force corporate customers into purchasing advanced server smacks of market domination techniques, not unlike those used by a certain company in Redmond.
Their market dominance is giving them sway with companies like Oracle, who are beginning to build applications which are only qualified to run on RH advanced server.
(we're facing this problem at work at present, we'd like to move to Debian for convenience but can't because of the need for application support).
The theory that RedHat will become the Micro$oft of the Unix world isn't perhaps as alarmist as it might seem.
Not because there aren't superior distributions out there, but because all the commercial apps will require RedHat if you expect to get support.
This won't mean you can't run commercial apps on other distros, especially those that use rpm for package management,
but it will create interesting support issues if you choose to do so.
(thats without even considering the fact that RH is snapping up the cream of the Linux development world).
Interesting times ahead i fear.
Regards
Aaron
On Wed, Apr 09, 2003 at 01:53:05AM -0400, Lorenzo Prince wrote:
> This is quite a shame, and I hope it changes shortly.  I was hoping to
> some day work for RH after I graduate from college as they're actually in
> the state where I live.  I am a computer
> science major, and would much rather work for an open-source company than
> a company that only has their own interests in mind and only cares about
> getting as much money as possible from their customers and hurting other
> companies in a feeble attempt to get their second-rate products to gain a
> majority of the market share.  I DON'T WANT TO WORK FOR
> MICRO$HIT!!!!!!!!!!  Pardon the language.  LOL.
> 
> LINUX ROCKS!
> Lorenzo
> 
> E Pluribus Unix
> 
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> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Luke Davis" <ldavis at shellworld.net>
> > To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> > Sent: Monday, April 07, 2003 7:19 PM
> > Subject: Re: RH9 disks on the net.
> >
> >
> > > On Mon, 7 Apr 2003, Janina Sajka wrote:
> > >
> > > > Luke Davis writes:
> > > >
> > > > "I have not investigated, and do not intend to investigate, the facts he
> > > >  listed."
> > > >
> > > > Facts? What facts? There were no "facts" in that post, just allegations.
> > > > Rather outrageous ones, too.
> > >
> > > Regarding:
> > >
> > > > Some will recall that Red Hat recently decided to deliberately deny
> > > > equal access to its training material as offered to those whom decide to
> > > > take their week-long RHCE training classes.  Oh, well...
> > >
> > > Is this false?  Did they, or did they not, make these inaccessible?
> > >
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