Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Red Hat In Business News

Posted by Hemos on from the work-to-reverse-the-slide dept.

jferg was one of the first people to write about the coverage in today's Observer in regards to the latest business happenings at Red Hat. The article touches on the launch of RH Advanced Server, but one of the most telling statistics was "Red Hat now has 90 percent of its 630 employees working to lure corporations looking to move their computing platform from expensive systems running on the rival Unix operating system to Linux, widely considered to be the more cost-effective choice."

1 of 239 comments (clear)

  1. I still haven't paid for Red Hat 7.2 - by Medievalist · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    - because it's still not ready for production use.

    The pppd has been *known* to be broken since October 2001, but no errata has been pushed out yet, despite a chorus of complaints, emails, slashdot discussions, etc. You can't dial in with a mac or a win9x box - that's a *major* bug! The wtmp functionality is broken too - you can't see PPP users with a "w" command.

    I paid for 5.0, 5.2, 6.0, 6.1, and 6.2 - and I convinced others to pay also - but I'm not going to pay for 7.2 until the pppd gets fixed. What other leverage do I have, but my dollars, since complaining has done no good?

    Quality product sells. Broken product gets downloaded for testing and then chucked out.

    --Charlie