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On Thu, 2004-06-03 at 19:29, Donnie Berkholz wrote: |
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> Here's a pretty typical case of what Gentoo may want to look into to |
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> increase its enterprise use, from the network admin at my old university. |
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> Requirements summary: |
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> 1. Paid support |
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> 2. Online help with issues |
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> 3. Vendor partnership (e.g., Oracle) |
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> I think we've got a good handle on #2 with our forums and mailing list |
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> archives, among other things. #1 and #3 could probably use some work. Of |
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> those, #3 would likely be easier and faster to get off the ground. |
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Actually, #1 would be much easier. It will be very hard, or even |
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impossible, to get vendor partnerships so long as Gentoo is a constantly |
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moving target. Until such time as we are able to have stabilized |
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"release" trees that are bug-fix ONLY, there won't be much of a chance |
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of this. I know that this is something that is being worked on, but I |
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don't have a clue by who. |
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Could we possibly get the people whom are working on this project to |
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give us a SITREP (Situation Report) on how things are coming along? |
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Personally, I believe that both #1 and #3 are outside the scope of our |
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project and should be handled by the NFP. It would be much simpler for |
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a company to engage into a binding contract with an actual recognized |
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corporate entity (though non-profit) than a loosely connected group of |
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volunteers. |
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What is going on with the NFP trustees? How have things progressed? |
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Have they? |
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> We are using RHEL 3.0 |
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So does the company that I work for. |
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> We were looking for a product that offered paid support. This was a |
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> mangement requirement. Personally, I like Red Hat because it is in such |
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> widespread use that it is easy to find help online with issues that |
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> arise. Red Hat's recent vendor pertnership programs, especially with |
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> Oracle also make Red Hat very attractive. |
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We use it for nearly the same reasons. We must have someone whom is |
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accountable, and if necessary, will fly out to our site to solve a |
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problem. Yes, we pay Red Hat a good chunk of money for this, but we are |
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a fairly large telecommunications company, and it is a necessity. |
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> I have very good things about Gentoo. Although, I have no experience |
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> with it, I would certainly be willing to try. Right now I am using |
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> Fedora at home, but wouldn't mind something else. |
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> -- |
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> Greg Miller, RHCE, CCNA, MCSE |
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> Senior Network Specialist |
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> University of Richmond |
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Chris Gianelloni |
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Release Engineering QA Manager/Games Developer |
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Gentoo Linux |
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