050804 Chris Gianelloni wrote: -- long interesting account of life in the enterprise snipped -- > I want to see Gentoo as an enterprise-capable distribution myself, > but I also understand that it is a long, hard road ahead of us > and there will still be things we cannot provide as a community distro. > There would need to be an entity responsible when something goes wrong > and that has the manpower and resources to fix it.
There's no way a volunteer organisation like Gentoo could undertake that. What would be essential is a company with capital invested & probably an insurance policy somewhere in the background, which employs Gentoo-knowledgeable staff to build & fix systems. It would probably have its own mirror with a selection of Gentoo packages, which it is prepared to guarantee as reliable & safe to use, & would develop all the enterprise-level management tools you describe. Hopefully, it would give something back to the underlying volunteer Gentoo by way of free staff time & some tools all of us might benefit from. The first step is a visit to your friendly neighbourhood bank manager (smile). -- ========================,,============================================ SUPPORT ___________//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Community Studies TRANSIT `-O----------O---' University of Toronto -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
