Date: 22 Jul 2003 23:45:07 +0800 From: Khairil Yusof <kaeru@pd.jaring.my> To: Jerry Hicks <gehicks@alltel.net> Cc: FreeBSD Chat <freebsd-chat@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: What does "enterpise" mean? Message-ID: <1058888706.721.169.camel@daemon.home.net> In-Reply-To: <E28BB957-BBEF-11D7-B762-0030657B5F1E@alltel.net> References: <E28BB957-BBEF-11D7-B762-0030657B5F1E@alltel.net>
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--=-E8ZllKoEAvcbdpC8JLfx Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, 2003-07-22 at 10:55, Jerry Hicks wrote: > In the case of one major Linux vendor's enterprise products they are=20 > even pitching 'longer release cycles' as a product feature. >=20 > "We're repackaging stale open source software and charging you extra=20 > for it." >=20 > Oddly enough, all the pointy hairs I know think that is a good thing. Sometimes it is a good thing. In my office where we use RH9, I don't let anybody install the latest OpenOffice 1.1rc, until it becomes release, and even then it would be an entire office upgrade to RH10 or whatever, AFTER some designated early adopters have given it a testing run to see whether it is worth it or not. Unless somebody volunteers to do all the installs, and then support all 30 workstations in which openoffice 1.1rc might break existing configurations (on their own time), it will not be fun and people end up not doing any work. Sure the software in RH9 might be older, but everything that was packaged is setup to work with each other, and works properly. On the other hand it can also be a pain for servers. RH AS 2.1 is annoying to manage as things are from RH circa 7.2. I like FreeBSD much better in this regard as I can better control due to ports, and the ease of upgrading base. -- "Optimized, readable, on time; Pick any two."=20 FreeBSD 5.1-CURRENT i386=20 11:33PM up 23:31, 3 users, load averages: 0.47, 0.35, 0.34 --=-E8ZllKoEAvcbdpC8JLfx Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQA/HVwBDAqnLW/+/X8RApG8AKC/yB0GMt2fTaGPrL2QP/jRToN5ZACgsMRS cM3zn9LOD+PvLy6BBcXRoak= =le3l -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-E8ZllKoEAvcbdpC8JLfx--
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