On 9/1/20 12:28 PM, ITwrx wrote: > At roughly a billion $ a quarter in gross > revenue(IIRC), i think Red Hat should double/triple down on Fedora and CentOS
it's a head-scratcher sometimes. particularly when you _talk_ to really interested & capable devs in Fedora-land -- many of whom _are_ RH/IBM employees -- and get the "Absolutely! Wish we could! But we don't have the <mandate|time|money|hardware> to do that" chat. it's a problem as old as the hills. or at least as old as Vulture Capital investment ;-) > imagine if it were all really well > funded, and got to all the people doing the work. Couldn't agree more. But. Sisyphus. > completely dominate market share for smaller institutions? Could. Not sure it's on their radar; remains to be seen after the acquisition by IBM, and the repositioning of CoreOS for cloud, etc. But IME, unless it's *big* revenue _added_ to the bottom line -- which is what sales are generally incented for -- it's a case tone-deafness. Revenue lost, let alone not considered in the 1st place, is not a priority ... particularly if any one deal is 'small'. > Why would enterprises use another OS/distro if all the > users, admins and devs only/mainly know Fedora/CentOS b/c that's what > they use at school and work. Fedora distro's positioning & point-release schedule sites nicely IMO between Rawhide & Centos. Mostly (I've a _few_ bones to pick ;-) ). And the FOSS ecosystem is a great -- and necessary -- gateway to RHEL support & licensing. Personally, I hope they continue to leverage it, and grow to recognize better Fedora $$support floats all their boats. But there's no guarantee 'big corps' make sane decisions about their feeder tech & communities. There are more than a few reasons that we switched production & dev distros ... costly as it's been. And, that I'm keeping my internal DIY-LFS distro production alive and at-the-ready. Just in case ;-) _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org
