Why Desktop? Repulsion of Business market, less marketable

Mike A. Harris wrote:
> On Wed, 26 Mar 2003, Audioslave - 7M3 - Live wrote:
> 
> 
>>I was also gullible with the DOJ game that was played out. I guess the 
>>days for convincing others to switch from Windows to specifically Red 
>>Hat are getting lesser.
>>
>>To be fair about the mp3 issue. It isn't that major of a deal to get the 
>>proper rpm for it to work again. It does however take away the idea of a 
>>ready to go, everything included attitude. that I had in the past.
>>
>>To conquer the desktop market, you have to be attractive and hassle free 
>>, in the eyes of the future customer. I see too many things 
> 
> 
> I'm curious as to what is misleading you to believe that Red Hat
> is targeting the home MP3 using desktop market.  Or any market in
> which MP3 support is mandatory, or even necessary.
> 
> Is there even one?  And if so, is that market one in which there 
> is a viable ecomonimically feasible business model?
> 
> I think not.
> 
> 

Support for Windows 98 is about to end in June, according to my friend, 
who is blind. I relayed to him that there is some work on applications 
that will aid the unseeing. He commented about desiring to switch to 
Linux, because of this imposed limitation.

The main reason that I assumed that the desktop market was something 
that you were shooting at was the looks of RH 8. It has what most 
desktop users need, available.

On our local LUG, there are a few of people converting to RH 8, but 
still dual booting into XP.

Also, the use of Linux within my personal work environment is very 
limited. To my knowledge, it is only used for a few purposes. The 
business model looks lesser than the desktop, to me.

I now see three markets. Server use, corporate use and home use. I think 
that home use is higher than business use, excluding server use.

I do feeel that getting the schools to teach Linux and invest in 
hardware, with the savings, will increase Linux adoption. I do feel that 
a push to commercialize Linux too heavily will result in a backwave for 
Linux to break into the market, as a feasable alternative to proprietory 
software.

For me, growing away from Windows. I wouldn't want to have to feel 
repelled from using Red Hat. I've been pushing Red Hat, to other, pretty 
heavily. I've only convinced a few to try it out.

For adoption at our business. I was thinking about our division in 
Norway. They currently use win2k professional for the OS. Older versions 
sell with NT4.

They want to check into using Linux, in order to reduce the price of 
their product. I was going to try to push Red Hat. Now, I'm considering 
checking out other distros, for their adoption.

Basically, this system is used for dimensioning. Linux would probably be 
a better OS for the system.

For our also inconvienienced Norwegian friend. The division is 
CargoScan. They are Headquartered in Oslo.

In short, the desktop market is probably more feasable now. Mainly 
because of Windows discontinuing their support, for their products. But 
with making RH more expensive, selling it, to businesses, looks less 
likely. The adoption of more stringent end of life cycles also is a 
crippling point, within Red Hat.

Jim


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