Red Hat: Vista is an opportunity
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| Do you feel Novell has an advantage over you now that it has signed
| the deal with Microsoft?
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| Customers are not afraid of Microsoft. Customers don?t want to be dependent
| on Microsoft.
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| [...]
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| Oracle said it would offer support at less than half the price
| of Red Hat. How can you compete with that?
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| One thing Larry [Ellison, Oracle chief executive] says on stage, a
| nother in reality. It's half our list price without volume discounts
| and it's just vanilla support. With Oracle there's one 24/7 support,
| the same subscription for all your environment. You are buyings
| upport you don't need. We discuss with customers different service
| levels for dedicated parts of their infrastructure.
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| [...]
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| What's your take on Vista, which launched two weeks ago?
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| People are concerned about Vista: usability and the resources it
| requires. People will look at the alternatives when they have to
| replace hardware. That is absolutely an opportunity for us.
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