Re: [SLE] Re: Redhat vs SuSE Debate

From: Bruce Marshall (bmarsh_at_bmarsh.com)
Date: 10/04/03

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Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2003 19:15:20 -0400

    On Friday 03 October 2003 18:59 pm, Örn E. Hansen wrote:
    > fredag 03 oktober 2003 18:48 skrev John Pettigrew:
    > > The stable release is essential for people like me - I can't afford
    > > to lose the system to buggy software. So, it's a shame that RH have
    > > moved out of the consumer market. I can understand it commercially,
    > > though. As you say, most money is with the corporate market - just
    > > like it is in the Windows world!
    >
    > Basicly, that's what a workstation is. However, there was once this
    > small company called Microsoft and these BIG company called IBM. One
    > was producing some insignificant OS for a home computer, while the
    > other was dominating the enterprise market. Now, one of these is but
    > a fraction of what it once was, while the other is bigger than anyone
    > would ever imagine. And those who made it happen, are the small
    > consumers like you and me, the small buck consumer who has to use
    > these enterprise computers to do work but the only thing they truly
    > are familiar with is the system they use at home today. But the
    > emerging user, is the enthusiast just like yesterday, the one that
    > expands the use of his little home computer to do more than it was
    > produced to do. They're what is going to decide what systems are used
    > in the enterprise tomorrow, and what systems are they chosing today?
    >
    > > John

    Are you implying that IBM is a fraction of what it once was???

    Wrong!!!! 

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