Re: Debian's Future in the Coporate World

2005-03-10 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 11:28:38AM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Atwal, Steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005.03.09.1847 +0100]: > > - I've been using versions of Debian (namely Libranet) on 5-6 Linux servers > > at > > work for years. I'm facing increasing opposition from senior managemen

Re: Debian compatibility label (Re: Debian's Future in the Coporate World)

2005-03-10 Thread Tilman Koschnick
On Thu, 2005-03-10 at 08:37 +0100, Adrian von Bidder wrote: > The BIG question is: would companies be ready to put that logo on their > product information web pages (and/or ads etc.)? Would they be willing to > pay for this? I could imagine that companies like HP, who already support > Debia

Re: Debian's Future in the Coporate World

2005-03-10 Thread Marc Haber
On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 11:45:34PM -0800, Richard A Nelson wrote: > *) Customers speak loudly, and therefore, there *is* support of > Debian - apparently on a per contract basis and seemingly more > often done in the EU than in the US. Support that is not actively advertise

Re: Debian's Future in the Coporate World

2005-03-10 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Atwal, Steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005.03.09.1847 +0100]: > - I've been using versions of Debian (namely Libranet) on 5-6 Linux servers at > work for years. I'm facing increasing opposition from senior management to > justify using Debian as opposed to RedHat due to the fact that most m

Re: Debian compatibility label (Re: Debian's Future in the Coporate World)

2005-03-10 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 08:37:20AM +0100, Adrian von Bidder wrote: > Ok, and now I give the word to the 'Debian don't need no stinking marketing' > counter argument :-) Avaunt, smelly marketer. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `'

Re: Debian's Future in the Coporate World

2005-03-09 Thread Richard A Nelson
On Wed, 9 Mar 2005, Atwal, Steve wrote: > vendors do not list Debian as being supported by their product, > e.g. Plone, IBM hardware, etc. On the IBM front (and I would expect other companies as well), the situation is murky at best... *) They want a corporate body upon which they can lev

Debian compatibility label (Re: Debian's Future in the Coporate World)

2005-03-09 Thread Adrian von Bidder
On Wednesday 09 March 2005 18.47, Atwal, Steve wrote: > - I've been using versions of Debian (namely Libranet) on 5-6 Linux > servers at work for years. I'm facing increasing opposition from senior > management to justify using Debian as opposed to RedHat due to the fact > that most major hardware