On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 08:17:08AM +1000, Paul Gear wrote: > Stephen Smoogen wrote: > > ... > >>I also am not sure I understand the dumping of the RHL product line. > >>Again it is a poor business choice. Spawning off Fedora makes sense. > >>Dropping RHL though? > > > > 1) > > ... > > 5) > > ... > > So if we take the optimistic cut of $20.00 per boxed set and a > > conservative costs of ~4 million/year.. you will need to sell at least > > 200,000 boxed sets in a year. If you have lower price point or higher > > costs.. then the numbers increase quite a bit. I do not know how those > > numbers compare to Red Hat sales... [snip] > The argument that RH are now going to be financially viable because they > are not developing RHL any more really isn't convincing. There is > something else happening here to which those of us outside are not privy > that is controlling this decision. Such an argument would be specious which is probably why I haven't seen it brought forth anywhere in these forums before. I wonder what messages you have been reading that I haven't? The argument that is incontestible is that RH needed to concentrate on the bottom line before it was too late. And I think you will see that RH wants to play nice with the "freeloaders" as well as the enterprise people. Give Fedora some time. -- Jack Bowling mailto: jbinpg@xxxxxxx
