From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 21 19:55:04 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 463D137B401 for ; Mon, 21 Jul 2003 19:55:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mta02-srv.alltel.net (mta02.alltel.net [166.102.165.144]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4700D43F85 for ; Mon, 21 Jul 2003 19:55:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gehicks@alltel.net) Received: from alltel.net ([69.40.16.246]) by mta02-srv.alltel.net with ESMTP id <20030722025501.TKID7705.mta02-srv.alltel.net@alltel.net>; Mon, 21 Jul 2003 21:55:01 -0500 Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2003 22:55:00 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v552) To: Brett Glass From: Jerry Hicks In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20030721143722.02a44c20@localhost> Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.552) cc: FreeBSD Chat Subject: Re: What does "enterpise" mean? X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2003 02:55:04 -0000 On Monday, July 21, 2003, at 04:38 PM, Brett Glass wrote: > At 01:17 PM 7/21/2003, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: > >> What does Unix for the enterprise mean to you? > > Easy. "For the enterprise" == "For big corporate customers with > pointy-haired bosses who are impressed by bells and whistles > that they really don't need." > > --Brett Glass > In the case of one major Linux vendor's enterprise products they are even pitching 'longer release cycles' as a product feature. "We're repackaging stale open source software and charging you extra for it." Oddly enough, all the pointy hairs I know think that is a good thing. Cheers, Jerry Hicks