Re: Enterprise versus Consumer line concerns
James Ralston <[email protected]>
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On 2003-03-13 at 15:39:11-0500 Brent Fox <[email protected]> wrote: > I think we acknowledge that our off-the-shelf offerings aren't going > to be right for everyone in every situation. It sounds like you > have some needs that neither the Consumer or Enterprise line is > quite right for. True, but the Consumer line is probably the best fit for "bleeding edge" servers. It's very often been the case that whenever I needed something new (e.g., version 2 of cyrus-sasl), all I had to do was wait a few months, and it would be in the next Consumer release. (That's a big win--time I don't have to spend maintain my own RPMs is time I can spend on other things.) All I was trying to say was that although I know that Red Hat has a strong financial motivation to gently herd people towards the Enterprise line, there *is* legitimate reason to use the Consumer line product in an Enterprise environment. Push, but push gently. > However, if your company was willing to spend enough money so that > it made business sense for us to do some custom engineering for you, > I'm willing to bet the business people would consider it. Again, > I'm a developer not a marketeer, but that's my guess. Doubtful. We're education/government; I doubt I'd be able to justify the price tag for custom engineering. (AS was out of our price range.) -- James Ralston, Information Technology Software Engineering Institute Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA -- Phoebe-list mailing list [email protected] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/phoebe-list