Re: Database market share 2004

"Neil Truby" <neil.truby_at_ardenta.com> wrote:

>There is a very widespread perception that open-source operating systems -
>RedHat for example - do not provide adequate support either. We have
>encountered many risk-adverse users who would rather stick with Sun, HP or
>IBM because of the absence of demarcation disputes between the OS and
>hardware support vendors.

Given that computers are becoming more and more of a commodity, that begs the question of why Red Hat doesn't supply PC's (for example) and guarantee both the hardware and s/ware. I believe that one can purchase Dell machines with Red Hat preinstalled - I would imagine that getting support for this config would not be difficult?

Paul...

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