Comments on: Red Hat's leadership opportunity

Red Hat has failed as a leader. It need not do so forever.

[tristanbob]

Regarding point #4 - I believe that Red Hat should promote it's brand name in the Fedora product. How many people outside of the open source arena know that Fedora = RedHat?

RedHat needs to change from Fedora to something like OpenSuse and OpenSolaris, These are free, unsupported versions of the OS that will eventually become the next commercial release. OpenRedHat doesn't sound very good, but I am sure they can come up with something.

Tristan

[kenneth.barber]

For myself, I've come from Australia and certainly comparing Sun and RedHat in the Unix space from a sales perspective in Sydney - Sun certainly comes out shining. Unfortunately while the techies may have a technical preference in regards to technologies - the RedHat sales team don't leave the same warm fuzzy comforting feeling that upper management require out of a "business partner" when compared to other players like Sun. Sun in regards to sales are players and understand that calibre of B2B sales - the old fashioned type that the less tech savvy management for these larger organisations understand - the type that has little to do with technical prowess or principles ...

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