Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on November 22, 2004 04:03 PM
"In the US, we need to work to travel overseas more, to try to understand broader outlooks, and to just get over it when we encounter an unfamiliar distro name."
I totally get what you wrote but it still doesn't change the fact that mepis and ubuntu sound weird/stupid to me and to the managers that make the decisions on what OS to go with. Hell, I think that is why my company is going with Red Hat because it was either them or Suse and I think the suits went with the one that they knew they would be able to pronounce correctly. Yes this is a stupid reason but when everything else is roughly equal this can be the tiebreaker.
If you are producing a distro that you plan on selling in the corporate world then come up with a decent name. This is the reason some of us are stuck with Red Hat.
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on November 22, 2004 04:03 PMI totally get what you wrote but it still doesn't change the fact that mepis and ubuntu sound weird/stupid to me and to the managers that make the decisions on what OS to go with. Hell, I think that is why my company is going with Red Hat because it was either them or Suse and I think the suits went with the one that they knew they would be able to pronounce correctly. Yes this is a stupid reason but when everything else is roughly equal this can be the tiebreaker.
If you are producing a distro that you plan on selling in the corporate world then come up with a decent name. This is the reason some of us are stuck with Red Hat.
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