Re: Redhat marketing campaign going after free Linuxes

2012-08-22 Thread Wilko Fokken
On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 11:17:56AM -0400, shawn wilson wrote: > first, i love statistics - it allows people to say pretty much > whatever they want and sound honest and scientific about it. Statistics are like bikinis: What they unveil is revealing, but what they conceal is pivotal. wwf -- .

Re: Redhat marketing campaign going after free Linuxes

2012-08-21 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2012 21 Aug 10:20 -0500, shawn wilson wrote: > first, i love statistics - it allows people to say pretty much > whatever they want and sound honest and scientific about it. Yes, lies, damned lies, and statistics. > some things could be > better (making sources.list more like yum.d for instan

Re: Redhat marketing campaign going after free Linuxes

2012-08-21 Thread shawn wilson
first, i love statistics - it allows people to say pretty much whatever they want and sound honest and scientific about it. i didn't read up on where those numbers came from, but lets assume they are correct and honest. what they didn't give is the numbers if an environment has all redhat boxes vs

[OT] Re: Redhat marketing campaign going after free Linuxes

2012-08-21 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 21 Aug 2012 09:53:20 -0300, francis picabia wrote: > Redhat marketing people have a video and PDF docs to conclude based on > IDC studies that RHEL is cheaper than free Linux in the Enterprise. It makes sense. > There is a video on the right side with a summary of their claims. > > http