>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?
I don't think I blamed anything on the public. The word desktop is thrown around more that the word engineer. RHL in retail was revenue for us. So you're saying we killed revenue to get... revenue?
I can see that thinking, but it still doesn't change that we didn't know exactly who was buying RHL in retail and exactly what they were using it for.
Let me ask you this. Does Morgan Stanley get their softwar at Best Buy? That explains the RHEL model.
The point I don't want missed is that we aren't done settling this new way of doing things. The Red Hat Desktop is a step that should show we listen to demand, we know what the market is asking (us) for.
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Re:The truest thing you said...
Posted by: Jeremy Hogan on May 07, 2004 03:52 AMI don't think I blamed anything on the public. The word desktop is thrown around more that the word engineer. RHL in retail was revenue for us. So you're saying we killed revenue to get... revenue?
I can see that thinking, but it still doesn't change that we didn't know exactly who was buying RHL in retail and exactly what they were using it for.
Let me ask you this. Does Morgan Stanley get their softwar at Best Buy? That explains the RHEL model.
The point I don't want missed is that we aren't done settling this new way of doing things. The Red Hat Desktop is a step that should show we listen to demand, we know what the market is asking (us) for.
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