Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on May 07, 2004 02:02 AM
It's nice to see RedHat respond, but the response seems to be trying to shift the blame onto the computing public. Before RedHat can hope to address the image and stability problems, they need to start by accepting responsibility for their mistakes and changing to prevent them from recurring.
The only truth I see is "We've had communication... issues". Any confusion of terminology is due to obfuscation by RedHat's own marketing and media management.
In the corporate world, the goal has always been to minimize the number of third party products and releases to be coordinated. This is the same market that demanded RedHat provide a stable release instead of churn. Acceptance and regression testing must be done on the same server software combination that will be running in production.
The problem is other distros have consistently delivered stable, current releases with a single core that serves both desktop and server. RedHat made it abundantly clear to the developer community that even the Enterprise server and desktop/developer installations are not identical.
Running and testing software on Fedora provides no valid regression test results for server software. Running and testing RH Enterprise desktop does not provide a valid regression-test environment for the server because RedHat makes it abundantly clear that they're not identical builds.
The only way to get a valid regression test environment with RedHat is to drop several thousand dollars worth of "Enterprise" server licenses on developer and tester desktops, which leaves them woefully outdated on the actual desktop facilities.
RedHat, please stop blaming the market and the public for your mistakes. Someone in your marketing or management team dropped the ball when they dropped RHL. Do you really think any of us in the community believe for a second that RedHat didn't drop RHL to try to force everyone to buy into the more expensive Enterprise line?
No wonder RedHat is in trouble -- their marketing department seems to think the tech community is full of gullible fools with infinite budget.
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Re:The truest thing you said...
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on May 07, 2004 02:02 AMIt's nice to see RedHat respond, but the response seems to be trying to shift the blame onto the computing public. Before RedHat can hope to address the image and stability problems, they need to start by accepting responsibility for their mistakes and changing to prevent them from recurring.
The only truth I see is "We've had communication... issues". Any confusion of terminology is due to obfuscation by RedHat's own marketing and media management.
In the corporate world, the goal has always been to minimize the number of third party products and releases to be coordinated. This is the same market that demanded RedHat provide a stable release instead of churn. Acceptance and regression testing must be done on the same server software combination that will be running in production.
The problem is other distros have consistently delivered stable, current releases with a single core that serves both desktop and server. RedHat made it abundantly clear to the developer community that even the Enterprise server and desktop/developer installations are not identical.
Running and testing software on Fedora provides no valid regression test results for server software. Running and testing RH Enterprise desktop does not provide a valid regression-test environment for the server because RedHat makes it abundantly clear that they're not identical builds.
The only way to get a valid regression test environment with RedHat is to drop several thousand dollars worth of "Enterprise" server licenses on developer and tester desktops, which leaves them woefully outdated on the actual desktop facilities.
RedHat, please stop blaming the market and the public for your mistakes. Someone in your marketing or management team dropped the ball when they dropped RHL. Do you really think any of us in the community believe for a second that RedHat didn't drop RHL to try to force everyone to buy into the more expensive Enterprise line?
No wonder RedHat is in trouble -- their marketing department seems to think the tech community is full of gullible fools with infinite budget.
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