[WBEL-users] Dell: Red Hat needs to lower prices

[Dave J. Hala Jr.]

Dell probably wouldn't sell any of there hardware with any of RHEL
clones. What they want is the "Corporate" style support structure behind
the OS. 

If you had built a well known and established clone, had some
experience, a very large professional dedicated staff and working
relationships with some of the enterprise players like Oracle, etc. you
might be able to take a run at it with Dell.

I'm surprised that one of major players hasn't tried to make a their own
clone yet...


On Wed, 2004-12-08 at 09:01, Connie Sieh wrote:
> On Wed, 8 Dec 2004, Lance Davis wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 8 Dec 2004, Mário Gamito wrote:
> > 
> > > RHEL is very expensive, WBEL only gives me uncertanty (with which, 
> > > neither me and my company can live with) and i'm not in the mood to try 
> > > another RHEL clone and eventualy have the same or other problems as WBEL.
> > 
> > Why should another clone give you the same problems ??
> > 
> > There are at least 4 other clones that are stable and should stay the 
> > distance, they have differing offerings but are essentially compatible.
> > 
> > CentOS
> > lineox
> > tao
> > xoslinux
> 
> Add
> 
>   Scientific Linux
>   Startcom
> 
> -Connie Sieh
> > 
> > So even if you went with one and werent happy with it , it wouldnt be that 
> > had to switch servers to another one, as they are effectively the same 
> > thing with different branding.
> > 
> > Lance
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
> 
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