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SuSE CEO's Two-Distro World

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the just-the-two-of-em dept.

FrankoBoy writes "CRN has an interview with SuSE CEO Richard Seibt in which he claims such things as 'Linux means two companies: Red Hat and SuSE, and nobody else.' Another example of this kind of corporatespeak can be found in another interview he did with ZDNet last week. DistroWatch has an article about all this in its current weekly newsletter."

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  1. The whole quote isn't nearly as bad by hidden · · Score: 5, Interesting

    It's my view that the industry has decided there is one main operating system competitor to Microsoft, and that is Linux. Linux means two companies: Red Hat and SuSE, and nobody else. There will be no third distribution that will be supported by the large IT vendors.

    All he's saying is that in the corporate market most of the support is related to these two companies.
    Personally I think he's wrong, but he's not trying to deny the existance of other distros or anything.

  2. A bit inflammatory, no? by Otter · · Score: 5, Interesting
    [H]e claims such things as 'Linux means two companies: Red Hat and SuSE, and nobody else.'

    C'mon -- the guy is a non-native English speaker and the context makes it perfectly clear what he's saying. He said that from the perspective of commercial Unix vendors, there are two Linux distributions they actively consider.

    I'm a Gentoo and Yellow Dog user, but the shrieking in just the first 10 comments is completely misplaced.

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