On 28 Jan, George Toft wrote:
Kaare Rasmussen wrote:
I'm worried about the latest announcements from the big guys HP and (not yet public) IBM that they will support RedHat Linux.
This means that Linux = RedHat for the most people, and where will that put SuSE? Alone in the dark?
I think SuSE is like Beta VCR's, OS/2, Word Perfect, and the Amiga computer - a technically superior product being squashed by someone else's superior marketing. That's how it's done in the US. Red Hat is smoozing with the money and the press, and that's what makes the US economy tick.
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Good commentary George!! OS/2 has always been inherently superior to NT or 95/98. Its multitasking abilities drive huge markets that are invisible to us end users for the most part. Its unfortunate that some of these companies like the one I worked for have moved toward NT. Many of the IT types have remarked that OS/2 was easier to support, more stable, easier to rebuild. I do think though that RedHat offers a new person a certain attraction which is manifested by their ads. They also target ads toward IT managers and other decision makers in the MIS/IT/developer chain. I think RedHat provided the ability for people like me to learn linux with its rpm packaged software. When I first started with linux, I was able to grab these packages and get things working. -- Michael E. Perry mperry@basin.com ------------------ - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the SuSE-FAQ at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A">http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A</A>> and the archiv at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A">http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A</A>>