Community Linux on the rise?

paulus — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 14:36:59 +0000

PCWorld released a recap of a recent study showing a stronger ground community-based linux distributions gains in the enterprise market. Quoted from the study :

“Community distributions such as CentOS, Debian, and Gentoo are gaining enterprise respect for quality code, stability, response, and of course, for being “free as in beer” and “free as in freedom”. These community distributions are becoming a more significant market factor with growing enterprise acceptance and use of them”

Apparently more enterprises, especially in Europre, are willing to take chances running community-based distro (as opposed to commercial distro like RHEL or SuSE) using their internally capable resource for system administration, support, as well as application migration, although sometimes they still seek assistance from third-party consultant, which turns out to be cheaper than paying support from commercial-based distro.

Is this the end of commercial-based distro? Well it may be is too early to say so, but commercial distro should start reviewing their business model.

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Community Linux on the rise?

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