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

[Imran William Smith <iwsmith@mimos.my>]

cdemarco@fastmail.fm wrote:

> 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).  
I've heard talk that their ES-WS product may come downmarket, to become
a cheaper personal/corporate desktop type product (i.e. to better fill 
the gap of
Red Hat Linux).  Maybe they are carefully monitoring takeup of ES-WS at
the high current price of USD180 p.a. (50% off for existing RHN members),
and if not they'll bring it downmarket.    Particularly now Novell/SuSE 
will likely
push to become the 'standard desktop Linux' if RH doesn't maintain 
territory they
already have, since the only other major contender, Mandrake, is still weak
financially.


Imran

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Imran William Smith
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