Red Hat Advanced Workstation

[David A. Bandel]

On Thu, 26 Jun 2003 15:10:00 +1000 (EST)
"James McDonald" <james at jamesmcdonald.id.au> wrote:

> > On Wed, 25 Jun 2003, Shawn L Johnston wrote:
> >> Has anyone used the Red Hat Workstation? Does it seem good, bad, or
> >just> a basic Red Hat product with a higher price tag?
> >
> > Yes, to the 2nd question.  Its for companies that think they're
> > getting something more valuable by paying alot of money for support.
> 
> Agreed Redhat has been mimicing the Microsoft Naming of it's products
> as in "Windows Advanced Server" etc for a while I suppose they know
> the chunk of market they want and are trying to confuse the suits that
> will be paying for it into buying the product.
> 
> Personally I find the move away from the base linux tools toward
> Redhat/Mandrake/Suse badged tools and interfaces is creating a bunch
> of"this or that release only" style users. But I suppose that is what
> economic reality is doing to the Linux OS producers as they try to
> corale their user base toward product and name brand loyalty.

Well, that too.  But I see far too many young admins who can't do
anything from a command line and rely on the RH/SuSE/whoever GUI tools. 
Clueless lot trained by M$ to be a clueless lot.

Ciao,

David A. Bandel
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