[CentOS-promo] CentOS Rollup for events ...

[Dag Wieers]

On Wed, 26 Jan 2011, Garry Dale wrote:

> Alan Bartlett wrote:
>> On 26 January 2011 12:06, Marcus Moeller <marcus.moeller at gmx.ch> wrote:
>>
>>> http://www.marcusmoeller.ch/share/rollup_minimal_blue.svg
>>
>> I'm not sure about the "anyone". Perhaps "everyone"?
>>
>> Maybe it's just me (please don't rush to agree :-) ), so I'll just ask
>> for other opinions.
>
> IMHO, the emphasis on "Enterprise" is key, along with promotional
> phrases like "reliable, predictable and reproducible" [1].

That's in my opinion the essence to using Enterprise distributions and 
especially RHEL/CentOS. All other benefits are derived from that. For a 
flyer it's important to also go into those derived benefits.


> And of course the cost to the consumer is very appealing.

If cost is appealing I think you'd have to be honest and also explain what 
you don't get when you don't pay for the real thing. The presentation on 
the wiki goes into that in more detail.

I would never emphasize that it is free (as in gratis) because that's 
emphasizing the least attractive part of what is offered. And you cannot 
compete on that with other Linux distributions anyway.


> But CentOS and the CentOS Project are certainly not a good fit for
> anyone and/or everyone [2].

True, but the point we may want to get through is that, contrary to RHEL, 
anyone is able to use a real Enterprise Linux. That's why we created the 
stickers for a conference in Argentina with the slogan: "Enterprise Linux 
for the people" which fits the sense of socialist activism you feel in 
South-America very strongly.

I still think that is a very strong message to get through. Wether we use 
"for the people" or "everyone" or "the whole planet". In the same light 
one could say "Freeing Enterprise Linux since 2004" which also emphasizes 
that it is free (in the freedom sense).

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