Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (145 mails)

[Jason Perlow <jperlow@xxxxxxxxx>]

By the way, it

It should be noted that CentOS is not just successful when used as a
pseudo-RHEL for things like cluster nodes and such where companies
want to avoid licensing of not-as-critical systems but its also a very
popular OS for building appliance servers like the Kickfire, the
Schooner, etc. That SUSE seems to have ceded the market for appliance
server OS to Redhat/CentOS where an "OpenSLES" could provide some
differentiation and superiority in the build system and various other
aspects may be something that has been overlooked.


 Why do you think CentOS is relatively successful?
> Certainly not because of its first-class Enterprise support ;) As somebody
> pointed out recently, the business model currently used by RedHat and
> Novell may no longer work in the future.
>
> > If you're heading down that path, I would be more happy if you chose a
> > real community distribution and became a contributor. But that may be a
> > minority position.
>
> Well, I have a position and an opinion as a private individual, and one
> position (which is more business related) and an opinion as somebody
> working for a large company where I have influence on OS, hardware, and
> software decisions. These opinions/positions do not necessarily agree with
> each other ;) I certainly observe that the more commercial opinions and
> positions are usually not very welcome in the community.
>
> I've certainly seen and observed what has gone on in our line of business
> over the last, say, two years and frankly speaking, I wouldn't be
> surprised if openSUSE/SLES loses more users/customers of a certain type
> described in some email threads here because the Fedora/CentOS/RHEL and
> the Ubuntu/Ubuntu LTS solutions become more attractive. You don't have to
> agree with me on that one, it's however my opinion based on recent
> experience. Only time will probably show what and who is right or wrong.
>
> Cheers, Thomas
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