At Tue, 23 Jun 2009 05:57:19 -0400 (EDT) CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> wrote: > > > ok, given the flurry of responses to my original post, let me see if > i have a handle on this as i think i've finally figured it out and, > yes, it does make sense. > > the scenario is that there is a very large software company in the > area whose only officially supported linux platform is currently suse. > however, they are getting increasing call to have their product run on > red hat. Just about any product that will run under RHEL will also run under CentOS. > > for most of their clients (who are fairly sizable) who will want > official support, RHEL will be the obvious choice and the software > company will advertise that RHEL is what they support. the SW company > will be happy, the clients will be happy, and red hat will be happy. > > on the other hand, if there is the occasional client who is perhaps > not as large, or doesn't have a budget for RHEL, centos will be the > obvious option if they're prepared to do their own support. that > scenario will, i'm guessing, not be that common so red hat has nothing > to worry about it in terms of cutting into their revenue stream in any > significant way. Right. It is not a matter on 'commonness' either. The big companies will likely opt for official RHEL and be paying RedHat the premium support contract. The smaller companies will be using CentOS. > > and, finally, for any client that chooses centos, that will > represent a possible support contract for independent linux > consultants. Yep. > > sound about right? > > rday > -- > > ======================================================================== > Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA > > Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry. > > Web page: http://crashcourse.ca > Linked In: http://www.linkedin.com/in/rpjday > Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday > ======================================================================== > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > -- Robert Heller -- 978-544-6933 Deepwoods Software -- Download the Model Railroad System http://www.deepsoft.com/ -- Binaries for Linux and MS-Windows heller at deepsoft.com -- http://www.deepsoft.com/ModelRailroadSystem/