On 5/13/05, C. Richard Matson
On Friday May 13 2005 8:12 am, jonlists wrote:
In the same boat here...... we had customers who had support contracts with Redhat until they were abandoned, and now we are steadily moving all of those customers to Suse, typically SLES.
I don't understand the statement that RedHat is still the flavor of choice in the U.S. That may have been the case in the past, but I don't think it's true anymore.
Here the Red Hat fans have mostly gone to Debian. There was some interest in SUSE until one of our "hotshots" flubbed a net install of SUSE at a LUG meeting. They refuse to buy the distros. Or even show someone how to install from the CD's. Our attendance at the meetings is steadily dropping and there is a tremendous amount of resistance to change. If it isn't old traditional Unix - it isn't accepted. Rich
I suppose that is one of the reasons that the U.S. is falling behind in the tech sector. " We must not change, we fear change. " This type of attitude makes me ill. If one doesn't adapt and change.. then stagnation and death do occur. It's sad really. And with the planet pretty much being flat these days.. the worker from China or India doesn't have to come to the U.S. to make use of his/her knowledge.. so them being cheaper and having more of "yes" attitude will cause the U.S. SO many issues. Bangalore is next door to Baltimore now because of the wired world. Amazing. I just don't understand ununwillingness to give something new a try. Someone may have been a "hotshot" at one time.. but if I had a dime for every install that had an issue... I'd be so rich that I could just kick back and live anywhere without a care. -Ben -- "There is no need to teach that stars can fall out of the sky and land on a flat Earth in order to defend religious faith."