Re: [ossig] Snow of yesterday ... (blog)

[cdemarco@fastmail.fm]

On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 11:32:23AM +0800, Uwe Dippel wrote:

> Repercussions  to the successful  and laudable OSS101, probably.  No
> more  going with (almost)  mainstream RedHat8/9.  The first step for
> newbies to jump on the bandwagon getting higher: Do we OSS101 on the
> 'geek'-fork or  do we provide  marketing for a commercial  version ?
> The answer lies ahead.

That's a  really interesting effect - I  justified running RH8/9 on my
personal boxen because it was the distro most likely to be relevent to
any for-profit Linux work I'd do.  Similarly, although I absolutely do
NOT lack self-confidence  in my knowledge and  skills, I've toyed with
the idea of shelling out $$$  to get RHCE in  my credentials to better
sell to marketroids.  So what happens to the RHCE  now?  Red Hat still
AFAIK  employs smrat people who don't  spend  their time with heads in
sand (or worse...)  so they MUST have a plan for RHCE, but it seems to
me inevitable that  an entirely Enterprise  customer base will  shrink
their install base.  And when that happens, the value  of an RHCE will
be similarly shrunk to attract only users  of Red Hat Enterprise (beam
me up).  And  doesn't  RH derive  significant revenue  from their RHCE
products  -  how  do they intend  to  maintain  the relevency of their
certification and thereby preserve that  revenue stream?  It seems  to
me that they're marginalizing what was touted  as "the industry's most
lusted-after  cert".  As RHL no longer   represents the de facto Linux
distro, so too will RHCE no longer be the most-relevent Linux cert?  


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% You are in a maze of twisty passages, all alike.
Christopher DeMarco
cdemarco@fastmail.fm
+6013 389 5658

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