夜神 岩男 <supergiantpotato <at> yahoo.co.jp> writes: > ... > The IT market is massively overweight, > overvalued and engages in enormously wasteful development practices > right now. Open source development for the most common of software > system elements + a revenue stream based on hardware sales and computing > services provision (a very broad category worth huge money on its own) = > a better model for the customer. IBM knows this. Intel isn't too happy > about this. RedHat has placed itself at the most critical part of the > process as the servicer. Microsoft is done creating success and is > scrambling to now not create failure -- which is a really bad operating > mode for a business (IBM was there once itself). That's just good > business on RedHat's part and indicates a mature market understanding on > the part of IBM. IBM created RH to cover low-end market (RH providing services), eliminating pressures from that side by making life miserable for more formidable than RH companies and IBM competitors, itself concentrating on lucrative mid-to-high-end (mostly mainframe once again, please) side. So, back to the future for IBM ... :-) > ... JB -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines