Re: Debian money
Hi, Steve:
On Thursday 10 September 2009 01:57:14 Steve McIntyre wrote:
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> 4 Marketing stuff:
Yes. There's a kindof "market point" I've been wishing on Debian for
years "knowing" that it simply could happen: certifications and generally
rising attention to commercial producers, both hardware and (free/open)
software.
I think there's right now a thread on debian-users of an individual asking for
hardware 100% supported because of management. I know that, say, Dell
certifices/is certified by Red Hat because both the companies have the
management the time and the money to reach each other, talk and find their
common interest points. It's may opinion that Debian is the perfect platform
for them: all development being in the open you know from far away if your
hardware/software will be able to play along next Stable version; if you
need/want to maintain your own (free) software is quite easy to get into
Debian repos (you just need to "play nice"); even if you plan to develop on
the proprietary side, you will be able to use the very same tools than Debian
for easy and smooth integration. Being Debian a non for profit with high
ethics you can count on it not trying to stab you in the back if the wind
blows in favor of your competitors...
So, if Debian can be truly so great for companies from IBM to Alfresco, to
Oracle (and the end result can be so great for we, mere users), how is it
that we won't have "certified" stuff from them? It can't be the platform or
else they wouldn't certify with, say, Ubuntu. It's my opinion that's because
while Dell's and Red Hat's (or Canonical's) CEOs get to play golf together
that's not the case for Debian.
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