RE: Red Hat's acquisition of Sistina Software (LVM) (Decembe r18th 2003)

"Vanco, Don" <don.vanco-tWnNlxMdGQNWk0Htik3J/[email protected]> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 13:59:50 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.linux.redhat.taroon
Message-ID <[email protected]>
[email protected] wrote:
> Arjan van de Ven said:
>> On Fri, 2004-01-09 at 08:55, ilja.lunev-//[email protected] wrote:
>>> Sorry,
>>> 
>>> this was my mistake. I mean RHEL2.1
>> 
>> well RHEL2.1 doesn't have LVM at all, and it's unlikely we'll ever
>> add it (it's basically a feature frozen product, esp now that RHEL3
>> is out for a while, with LVM even) 
>> 
> 
> If RHEL3 is your flag ship you might want to talk to some of your
> "partners" about providing drivers/support for it.  Ie Compaq.
> 
> You freeze 2.1 and throw out 3 which not everyone has full support for
> yet.  So in essence alot of us are in no mans land.  
	No - it means we're selling SuSE.

>  And for what it doesnt do, we have Solaris.  I cant give
> Redhat away here
> lately between your outragous marketing/selling scheme, and
> your inability
> to listen to what your users need from you and your partners.  Why
> partner if its in name only ?
	Been wondering that since 1999 when we helped RH learn what a VAR
channel partner is...

> P.S. Not directed at you Arjan, just at Redhat in general.
ditto

Don


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