Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> Why Red Hat will NOT go bust because of Ubuntu
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> ,----[ Quote ]
> | Free Software Magazine has an interesting article claiming that Red Hat
> | with whither and die at the expense of Ubuntu.
> |
> | It's an interesting theory, but one that is based on a fundamentally
> | flawed understanding of enterprise software purchasing (closed or
> | open source).
> |
> | The theory goes that by targeting the corporate market and turning Red
> | Hat Linux into the Fedora project, the company "effectively abandoned
> | its desktop audience", while Ubuntu, which is a very fine operating
> | system, has been growing steadily in the desktop market and is now
> | poised to do the same on the server.
> `----
>
>
http://www.businessreviewonline.com/os/archives/2006/08/why_red_hat_wil.html
>
> Related article:
>
> Red Hat Growth Makes Analyst 'Believer'
>
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> | In addition to Red Hat, Prudential analyst John McPeake also
> | initiated coverage of CRM software provider Salesforce.com and
> | e-commerce software vendor Art Technology Group. If Salesforce.com
> | integrated its applications with companies' pricing, inventory and
> | billing systems, he said, it would dominate the market.
> `----
>
>
http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/Tec6Rf72TjZZb3/Red-Hat-Growth-Makes-Analyst-Believer.xhtml
>
> Also mentioned before in:
>
> Red Hat Gets Blessing from Analyst...
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
> | "We had been skeptical that the company would be able to win with a
> | free software product/paid support model, but the company's 6-fold
> | growth in free cash flow since 2003 has made us believers," wrote
> | McPeake. The analyst added that he is looking for 40 percent growth in
> | customers who pay for support of the free software in coming years.
> `----
>
> http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/060801/software_analyst_note.html?.v=1
I wouldn't say that RH abandoned their client base, FDC5 is a very good
product, maybe they put more of their resources into the already stable
server side than was necessary. RH (IMHO) still produce the best Linux
server. (though I haven't tried the new Suse enterprise yet).
They could I think put more resources into the clients, particularly for the
home users because there is more work for a user to do than with the likes
of Mandriva, Suse, Linspire and Ubuntu. We have to be prepared for more and
more users that can not or do not want to take more effort than simply plug
the DVD into the drive and 30minutes later have a working system. Mandriva,
Suse, Linspire, Ubuntu and others have addressed that and I can't
understand why RH are slower in that area.
But for RH as Linux clients move into the work place, those who have
experienced RH servers will be attracted to RH clients for the same basic
silid system knowning that once set up it will sit there trouble free for
years to come, but currently IT gets an easier setup with one of the other
clients.
It has to be to RH's benefit to put more resources into that area.
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