Red Hat as the "next Redmond"

Red Hat as the "next Redmond"

Posted Aug 27, 2002 18:42 UTC (Tue) by dbhost (guest, #3461)
In reply to: Red Hat as the "next Redmond" by ctg
Parent article: Red Hat as the "next Redmond"

The only issue that appears to make Red Hat similar to Redmond's beast is that many vendors that do support Linux, only support "Red Hat Linux" and it is usually two or so versions back. However with distributions such as Red Hat and Mandrake obtaining LSB certification, I would hope they support and disclaimers will read something more akin to "Requires LSB compliant Linux distribution".
I like Red Hat. It is a good OS. But as much as I like Red Hat, I love my Mandrake system.

Funny thing. Most of the Linux users I personally know use the following distros.
Mandrake (the majority of the users)
Debian
SuSe
Slackware
And that is about it. Not a Red Hat user in the bunch. I know they have a lot of really sweet deals with big computer vendors and with large companies. But I wonder what percentage of the market Red Hat really owns. And in the long run, who cares? Red Hat doesn't appear to be running interference with anybodies ability to chose a different distro, so why worry about it?

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