Enterprise Linux: is it broken?

Enterprise Linux: is it broken?

Posted Nov 4, 2004 3:10 UTC (Thu) by dang (subscriber, #310)
Parent article: Enterprise Linux: is it broken?

It is worth noting as well that redhat has consumed a decent amount of IP and devloped still more orf its own that it needs in order to market to enterprise customers, and it has returned a lot of that IP to the community as free/open software. I've never understood the redhat bashing, to be honest. Half the hype around open source/ free software is that it provides market opportunities; so redhat gets kicked for putting that model in play for *what* reason? Especially since redhat has consistently given assloads back to the linux community gratis.

Also worth noting that for enterprise customers, redhat's license amounts to chump change; and for enterprise sysadmins ( and CTOs, and sales reps, and customer support staff ), vendor support is the difference between a painful incident report and an unfortunate pink slip ( or blown account on the sales or support side ).

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