On Thu, 28 Jan 1999, you wrote:
Well, you have to look at why they are using it. If you look at the storage solutions used by these big companies, there are no drivers for linux. Redhat write drivers for hardware, that means redhat is the only dist that WILL work on their systems. I think if SUSE had a guy writing drivers and creating Install bootdisks that would allow people to install SUSE on systems with RAID controllers they would have a lot more customers.
I think SuSE does write drivers. Several people have commented to me that they went to SuSE because they needed the drivers for their stuff. One of the main X developers is on SuSEs payroll. Besides, since it's open source, any of these big guys could put a small team of programmers on a driver for a couple of weeks. No, there's more to this Red Hat revolution than meets the eye.
-----OriginalMessage----- > From: Kaare Rasmussen [SMTP:kar@webline.dk] Sent: Thursday, January 28, 1999 11:32 AM To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: [SuSE Linux] SuSE derailed?
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?
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