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Red Hat offers TCO savings: de Visser
Linux Journal ^ | 6 January 2003 | Unknown

Posted on 01/06/2003 10:13:24 AM PST by ShadowAce

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To: Karsus
How is this different that what you post? Since you never seem to answer this question, I will ask it again. What qualifies you to make tech related judgements?

Oh, puh-lease. You need to be slapped in the head in order to tell the difference between news and advertising. This crap might as well come from RedHat's PR page.


21 posted on 01/06/2003 11:53:00 AM PST by Bush2000
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To: Bush2000
It's an advertising piece. Nothing more.

Well, it's a sourced article, at least as valid as that "study" from the Alexis de Toqueville Foundation that Microsoft paid for. Was that you who posted that one here?

22 posted on 01/06/2003 11:57:01 AM PST by Nick Danger
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To: Nick Danger
Do you really want to play that game? Fine...
23 posted on 01/06/2003 12:06:04 PM PST by Bush2000
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To: ShadowAce
ok, I'll ask... how does a company (RedHat) make money selling free software?
24 posted on 01/06/2003 12:11:19 PM PST by Mr. K
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To: ShadowAce
"When other companies claim big savings in TCO because of Linux, every CEO has to ask himself the question if their organization could afford not to use Linux"

We have 400 servers I manage at my site, and it is only one of many sites we have. Most are Solaris and HP-UX with a good dash of Windows. The difficulties in migrating are centered around logistics, software, and customer relations. We, like similar companies of our type, deal in huge amounts of financial transactions so switching to Linux has been slowed while growth and stabalization was watched. I think many companies can now look to the successes of other business and say 'it works' - which will alleviate the concerns of those higher up and the customers we deal with.

Thanks to the pioneering of those with the guts to switch I forsee many larger companies now willing to see it as a viable and stable switch. Concerns and worries can now be addressed with case studies and general market analysis (for those higher up who would ask, will they be there in 5 years or are we going to need to switch back, what about growth of product, etc). Linux is at a prime time to push into the market deeper - but contrary to what some say Microsoft will continue to have a sizeable market share and .net is going to grow.

In 5 years the market will probably be linux and microsoft with a spattering of solaris, et al. Both linux and MS have their specialized areas which will continue to draw techies to them.

25 posted on 01/06/2003 12:13:16 PM PST by chance33_98
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To: Mr. K
Like Lindows, Red Hat leverages open source software by offering it for downloading from one location via a subscriber update service. Sure people could look all over the net for free Linux software if they knew where to find it. Most people don't and will happily pay a reasonable fee to download and install it from the company's own servers.
26 posted on 01/06/2003 12:17:24 PM PST by goldstategop
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To: Mr. K
I'm not really up-to-date on Red Hat, but here is what I believe they do...

They sell boxed sets of their distribution--a unique collection of OSS software and the kernel. They also sell support to other businesses/people adopting Linux. They sell an updating subscription to allow you to automagically update your software over the internet.

27 posted on 01/06/2003 12:18:53 PM PST by ShadowAce
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To: Bush2000
Because Microsoft is part of the evil empire and needs to be crashed.
28 posted on 01/06/2003 12:33:27 PM PST by RISU
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To: RISU
Because Microsoft is part of the evil empire and needs to be crashed.

What's the rest of the evil empire?
29 posted on 01/06/2003 12:56:21 PM PST by Bush2000
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To: goldstategop
so people who develop software and give it away free are good, but charging money to package and sell add on features is bad... But people who write code for money are bad...

I am seeing a logical disconnect here
(not you personally Gold... but the Linux fanatics here are like liberals in their fanatic zeal)

30 posted on 01/06/2003 2:23:08 PM PST by Mr. K
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To: Mr. K
so people who develop software and give it away free are good, but charging money to package and sell add on features is bad... But people who write code for money are bad...

I think you are a little confused. At least as far as I understand you. You are thinking free as in beer, where most Linux users want free as in speech. We like to be able to look at the code, change and update it to suit our needs/wants. Whether the author sells his code or gives it away makes very little difference to me. Personally, I'd rather they sell it--but if giving it away suits them, then I have no quarrel with it.

31 posted on 01/06/2003 4:15:47 PM PST by ShadowAce
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To: ShadowAce
that makes you an exception- I worked with a lot of linux people who think all software should be given away free- with an almost religious fervor. I could not make them see the dis-connect in their logic, that some one was PAYING them to program, and then they wanted to give away their software...
32 posted on 01/08/2003 6:58:58 AM PST by Mr. K
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