On Wednesday 02 May 2007 15:02, Kai Ponte wrote:
Nah, it'll never work.
This company, Red Hat tried it and look where they are now. They were ahead of their time... the timing wasn't right... there were two components missing from Red Hat... but by the way, I paid for RedHat's support and loved it... but I digress.
The two components that were missing for RedHat (both ill-related to timing) were these: 1) RedHat was not being used as a world-wide replacement for M$ desktops. 2) RedHat was not being shipped preinstalled on anyone's hardware (desktop, laptop). The two items listed above are changing rapidly with regard to linux preload availability and desktop/laptop offerings. Vista is not going to sell. At least DELL is going to preload Ubuntu... over the next two years millions of people are going to migrate from windoze to linux... its already happening right before your very eyes. The next two-five years are going to bring a very lucrative support services opportunity for the right teams that see the vision and gear up for it. Ubuntu is going to take the world by storm... you wait and see. openSUSE could be included in the migration if they play their cards right... leave M$ and hook up with HP for preloads. (or maybe Novell hasn't considered the fact that they too could build PCs--- I'd buy one) And then Novell needs to become a world class support services provider. Linux is the future for the next 10-20 years and kattie bar the door.... 1) Ubuntu and SUSE are going to replace M$ on the desktop within the next two-five year period... my prediction. 2) All hardware providers, HP, DELL, SUN, IBM... etc will be providing linux default loads on desktops and servers. 3) Everyone is going to be clamoring for software support services offerings. -- Kind regards, M Harris <>< --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org