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"I know I can't dissuade you from the view that Red Hat sells
because of the high quality of its "services and support"."

Its not just me.

"A friend of mine had decided to purchase a brand name
ibuprofen. I spoke without thinking, said that a generic would
have half the price. She, of course, chose the brand name
product. The extra she paid was part of an acceptable cost."

No doubt, but you are comparing completely different consumer
behaviour and costs.

Red Hat has dropped its consumer version choosing to support
only its enterprise distribution. The consumer version is now the
Fedora Project (available for FREE but WITHOUT support).

Enterprise customers are far more knowledgeable of the market
alternatives than the average retail consumer. Just as you were
able to identify generic alternatives for Ibuprofen, IT
professional should be able to identify alternatives for RHEL.
Similarly just as you would use the generic rather than the brand
because it is functionally the same, many IT pros would use
RHEL alternatives if Red Hat offered no additional value.

However they do offer additional value, and that value is their
services (certification, testing, up2date, guaranteed product
lifecycles, etc). JBoss works on the same model.
Posted by: Richard Flude   Posted on: 04/10/06 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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It IS inevitable  Sabz5150 | 04/10/06
It is a defining moment, 1/3 of a billion is not small change.  DonnieBoy | 04/10/06
RE: It IS inevitable  markbn | 04/11/06
Open source piracy  Anton Philidor | 04/10/06
Have to correcft this typo.  Anton Philidor | 04/10/06
Typo or no...  Jeremy Chappell | 04/10/06
Your bill...  Anton Philidor | 04/10/06
what part are you missing Anton?  Monkey_MCSE | 04/10/06
If every buyer...  Anton Philidor | 04/10/06
Everyone *can* get RedHat's software without payment  mosborne | 04/11/06
Actually...  LinuxHippie | 04/10/06
Right question, wrong answer  Yagotta B. Kidding | 04/10/06
You have no real concept of the difference, do you?  el1jones | 04/10/06
Is Red Hat selling services...  Anton Philidor | 04/10/06
Piracy?  Richard Flude | 04/10/06
Exclusivity in open source.  Anton Philidor | 04/10/06
Where are the strategies similiar?  Richard Flude | 04/10/06
Let's try a hypothetical situation.  Anton Philidor | 04/10/06
So hypothetically they are similiar? Clearly they aren't  Richard Flude | 04/10/06
People buy from Red Hat...  Anton Philidor | 04/10/06
Consumers vs Enterprise consumer  Richard Flude | 04/10/06
Piracy (free version) helps MS just like a free version helps RedHat  DonnieBoy | 04/11/06
Who writes this drivel???  No_Ax_to_Grind | 04/10/06
It already has  Richard Flude | 04/10/06
Enterprise Versions  imcdermid | 04/11/06
Open Source Dilemma  think_tank | 04/11/06
Kinda backwards...  techboy_z | 04/11/06
Backward and forward...  think_tank | 04/11/06
Red Hat is an open source monopoly  think_tank | 04/11/06
Oh please  mosborne | 04/11/06
He's right...  techboy_z | 04/11/06
Not Silly  think_tank | 04/11/06

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