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That you can give the product away and STILL profit from selling only support services. In the long run this is going to put an ever tightening squeeze on companies trying to survive by selling both a software product AND the support services. Companiew with fat profit margins run into tough sledding when competitors with slim profit margins show up. Red Hat is akin to the Walmart of Software Vendors, and we all know the havoc they've wreaked on their full service competitors. In reality this is just the beginning of the contest. I'm hearing more and more rumors that Linux will soon be able to run almost all Windows apps natively, due to huge amounts of money being poured into that effort by corporations and governments and lots of help from world class universities. If that proves to be true, Novell and Red Hat will be a force on the desktop in no time.
Posted by: George Mitchell   Posted on: 03/31/05 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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Right on track!  George Mitchell | 03/31/05
Track recedes into the distance.  Anton Philidor | 03/31/05
They are proving the point ...  George Mitchell | 03/31/05
Why would anyone clone RedHat software...  Anton Philidor | 03/31/05
Hate to break the news  Yagotta B. Kidding | 04/01/05
If you have bought RHEL 3...  Anton Philidor | 04/01/05
White Box  Yagotta B. Kidding | 04/01/05
Thought White Box Linux was one of the cloners.  Anton Philidor | 04/01/05
No difference  Yagotta B. Kidding | 04/01/05
Some people don't understand what is in RHEL.  B.O.F.H. | 04/01/05
"software for the sake of software..."  Anton Philidor | 04/01/05
Regarding what a business might pick?  B.O.F.H. | 04/01/05
Agreed, mostly.  Anton Philidor | 04/01/05
I think you have some misconceptions?  B.O.F.H. | 04/01/05
time will tell  hipparchus2000 | 04/01/05
Stock market looks at RedHat.  Anton Philidor | 03/31/05
Thinking further.  Anton Philidor | 04/01/05
like i say above, maybe the softwareIndustry will go from $bns to $millions  hipparchus2000 | 04/01/05
Anton's secret sources again!  IT_User | 04/01/05
If you wanted a link, you should have asked.  Anton Philidor | 04/01/05
Are we talking Zacks.com?  IT_User | 04/01/05
And that prompts further loss?  IT_User | 04/01/05
A separate package heals a broken OS?  IT_User | 04/01/05
You might want to check your math on that.  B.O.F.H. | 04/03/05
Says here $12.16  IT_User | 04/01/05
Good.  Anton Philidor | 04/01/05
OMG! they're making money, they must be EVIL! (nt)  zijiang | 03/31/05
Here we have it  Richard Flude | 03/31/05
What do we have?  Anton Philidor | 03/31/05
And it had room to recover.  Anton Philidor | 03/31/05
crowded market  hipparchus2000 | 04/01/05
Bad day for IP holders all over...  Mike Cox | 03/31/05
SCO shows what they think of Intellectual Capital ...  George Mitchell | 03/31/05
HA  Bob/Paul | 03/31/05
8.75  Real World | 04/01/05
Subscriptions lift Red Hat revenue  Loverock Davidson | 04/01/05
hhmmm "linsux, Dead Rat, unreliable" but no facts  hipparchus2000 | 04/01/05
BS!  Loverock Davidson | 04/01/05
how many hits/day do you think a 200MHz pentium could serve with RH9/Apache  hipparchus2000 | 04/01/05
the host my personal wesite is on . ...  hipparchus2000 | 04/01/05
What a great line Loverock!!!  George Mitchell | 04/01/05
So whats your point?  Loverock Davidson | 04/01/05
um.. when you say...  B.O.F.H. | 04/01/05

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