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A tale of two dead companies

A tale of two dead companies

Posted May 3, 2007 5:53 UTC (Thu) by tzafrir (subscriber, #11501)
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Insterestingly enough, one of the products of Progeny was providing paid upgrades for some products RedHat had no longer supported (RedHat 9, for instance).

Will someone else now provide paid updates for the discontinued Progeny distributions?


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A tale of two dead companies

Posted May 3, 2007 7:41 UTC (Thu) by nim-nim (subscriber, #34454) [Link]

And IIRC Progeny played shamelessly on FUD about Fedora being dead on arrival. Also harnessed Debianists all too happy to have their PHBs switch to a Debian derivative (even then Debian itself was no option).

A few years past Fedora is alive and kicking, Centos is a big success and rpm development has resumed.

Seems good products work better than buzz after all (no one will say Fedora communication efforts have been outstanding to date, and they certainly pale before what other big distributions do)

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