Dell Calls For Red Hat To Lower Prices

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Posted by timothy on Tuesday December 07, 2004 @10:27PM from the free-as-in-dollars dept.

VaultX points to an article on CNET (linked below), writing "According to Dell, Red Hat needs to lower pricing. 'We believe Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, for the small and medium-sized business market, was out of the price range of these customers.' With Dell's strong presence in the Linux server market, Red Hat may want to listen."

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ANONYMOUS COWARD CALLS FOR FERRARI TO LOWER PRICES (Score:5, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Tuesday December 07, 2004 @10:30PM (#11027708)

'We believe the Ferrari F430 Spider, for the small and medium-sized automotive market, was out of the price range of Mr. Coward.' With Coward's strong presence in the local Ferrari dealership, Ferrari SpA may want to listen.

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Re:RHEL 3? (Score:5, Funny)

by GrenDel Fuego ( 2558 ) writes: on Tuesday December 07, 2004 @10:35PM (#11027766)

Timewarp?

Version 3 is the current version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). RHEL is different than Red Hat Linux (RHL) which was end of lifed after version 9 to be replaced by Fedora Core.

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Re:in other news (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Tuesday December 07, 2004 @10:45PM (#11027854)

You want the source? You can't handle the source!

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Re:.edu price (Score:3, Funny)

by metlin ( 258108 ) * writes: on Tuesday December 07, 2004 @11:19PM (#11028133) Journal

> Sorry, should've googled before posting...

That's okay. u.r.id10t, so all is cool :-p

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Re:Other Linux competitors (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Tuesday December 07, 2004 @11:20PM (#11028143)

I agree.. actually.. why pay?? They could just take a GNU-Lesbian CD and install it everywhere.

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Re:.edu price (Score:3, Funny)

by Curtman ( 556920 ) writes: on Tuesday December 07, 2004 @11:30PM (#11028248)

That's okay. u.r.id10t, so all is cool :-p

He got double modpoints, and screwed up both posts though. Who's the ID10T's now? ;)

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Re:Redhat arrogance (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Tuesday December 07, 2004 @11:40PM (#11028359)

Guess what? the linked thread has several openssh developers discussing the issue in public, but strangely nobody from Redhat.
So I guess that makes you like, totally wrong.

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Re:Hi I'm captain obvious (Score:4, Funny)

by justins ( 80659 ) writes: on Wednesday December 08, 2004 @12:41AM (#11028886) Homepage Journal

If It's too expensive why is Red Hat doubling their sales every year/quarter, and alternitives like SuSE show little to flat growth?

Because you're pulling those figures out of your ass.

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Re:They could be lower but not by much (Score:1, Funny)

by eniu!uine ( 317250 ) writes: on Wednesday December 08, 2004 @02:34AM (#11029567)

"A bit of Sun bashing, and voilá, instant karma."

Sun sucks.

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Re:They could be lower but not by much (Score:2, Funny)

by MarkRose ( 820682 ) writes: on Wednesday December 08, 2004 @03:00AM (#11029702) Homepage

Just wait until he starts bashing the Moon! There'll be bits of cheesey posts like this everywhere!

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Re:They could be lower but not by much (Score:5, Funny)

by iwan-nl ( 832236 ) writes: on Wednesday December 08, 2004 @06:23AM (#11030395) Homepage

Sun sucks.

How much crack does one need to smoke in order to mod parent Interesting?

"Wow, he thinks Sun sucks! How interesting! Especially since the article has *absolutely nothing* to do with Sun! If only I had more mod points i'd mod this guy Insightfull too! w00t!"

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Re:They could be lower but not by much (Score:3, Funny)

by NardofDoom ( 821951 ) writes: on Wednesday December 08, 2004 @10:47AM (#11031725)

You must be new here.

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Re:RHEL 3? (Score:5, Funny)

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Re:.edu price (Score:3, Funny)

Re:Other Linux competitors (Score:1, Funny)

Re:.edu price (Score:3, Funny)

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Re:Hi I'm captain obvious (Score:4, Funny)

Re:They could be lower but not by much (Score:1, Funny)

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