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The Differences Between Red Hat and Novell
Tiberius_Fel writes "A former Novell employee has done a comparison at InfoWorld, reflecting on the business practices of Red Hat and Novell. They focus on such areas as customers, culture, and partners." From the article: "Red Hat has a hard-charging, take-no-prisoners approach to the market. If you're not making them money, you're not going to get their ear ... This has led the growing open source ecosystem to Novell, which is partner-centric and easy-going almost to a fault. Ron Hovsepian is changing this, and Novell is starting to become much more choosy about opportunities (customer and partnering) that come its way."
I count at least 10 in about 25 years (dos/win3/win95/win98/winMe/NT3/NT4/W2k/XP/2k3), leaving out many early and minor versions.
Regards,
Tob
I can't find any definition of the word "company" which wouldn't imply that its aim is not profit;
Actually, no such aim is implied by "company" at all.
The general aims of a company are defined in its articles of incorporation and typically expanded on in its memorandum of association, including whether or not it intends to operate for profit (generally a company doesn't restrict itself from making a profit, unless explicitely noted). Companies whose aims do not include profits often can avail of tax relief, and possibly other forms of relief.
That companies typically exist to make profits does not mean all companies do, nor that the definition of company implies for-profit.
I use Friend/Foe + mod-point modifiers as a karma/reputation system.
Matt Asay the author of this article will speak at SCALE 4x this year. SCALE will be held in Los Angeles on Feb 11-12, 2006.
but they were slow in getting 10.0 out the door.
Slow? They were on time as scheduled. http://www.opensuse.org/Roadmap will tell you the future dates. Oh and nowadays it is SUSE (and the comunity openSUSE) not SuSE anymore. It used to mean something and now it officially means nothing anymore.
Performance is something they are working very hard on and a noticable difference has been seen in 10.0 Also look at http://www.opensuse.org/SUPER
Don't fight for your country, if your country does not fight for you.
I'd say it is because they bought Cygnus, a company which had entirely specialized on gcc support.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
Indeed, originally it was S.u.S.E. (note the dots). It was an abbreviation for "Software- und System-Entwicklung" which is German for "software and system development".
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
You actually make the Grandfather's point for him.
:-( )
win3-win95-win98-winME was a separate product line to NT3-NT4-W2K-XP-2K3. Lumping them in together is like lumping MS Office and MS Works together.
I still don't buy the 5 years claim though,
Win 1.0 came out in 1985 (did anyone notice?)
Win 2.0 was in 1987 (ditto)
Win 3.0 1990
Win 3.1 in 1992
Win 3.11 in 1993
Win95, 98 and ME - well, guess.
I would *not* call 3.1 a minor release, and 3.11 was only minor if you did not need any form of networking.
NT3.1 was in 1993
NT3.5 in 94
NT4 in 96 (my work PC was upgraded away from this in February AT LAST
W2K in 2000 (doh)
XP in 2001
not sure I'd count Server 2003, but what the hell.
There are 5-year gaps there, but that is because the MS had noticed that business users are more than reluctant to upgrade. At my previous job, they upgraded from NT4 to W2K in 2002 for some arcane reason. At both places there was a complete hardware + software rollout involved.
Mielipiteet omiani - Opinions personal, facts suspect.
The Gentoo Foundation is a not-for-profit company. We are not a charity. Donations to Gentoo cannot be written off. Our goals have nothing to do with making money and everything to do with making software.