Tecchannel.de has a preview of SuSE’s UnitedLinux flavour SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 8: “A close look into United Linux 1.0 substantiates the not so new suspicion that the initative of the four UL companies essentialy is an attempt to stand up to Red Hat’s overwhelming market potence and to counter Red Hat Advanced Server with a competitive product. Conectiva, SCO and Turbolinux apparently have insisted in delivering their own management tools as a last line of defense for differentiating “their” UL flavours from a plain SuSE SLES.”
Review: United Linux 1.0
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I would like to predict that UnitedLinux, in the end, will be a great way for SuSE to crush SCO Linux, Connectiva, and Turbo Linux. Honestly, the only winner in this game will be the one that wins the name recognition game. In this case their are two names to recognize. Once someone decides to go with UnitedLinux, then they will look for the next biggest name, SuSE.
Lets see – 4 distro’s combine to produce 1 code base. they settle on the code base of one of the existing 4. They then sell it under 4 names. But 1 name appears on the installer.
Let me the first to admit that I’ve no Harvard MBA but does all this make any sense? Who are they hoping will be so impressed witht he name ‘unitedlinux’ that they won’t notice that its still 1 medium sized distro sharing its code base with 4 midgets.
Just in case you wonder, you can read it here:
http://www.opengroup.org/lsb/cert/cert_prodlist.tpl
Funny how United Linux is categorized under the company “Suse” in that last link. I think that just goes to show what i have suspected all along. Suse is strongarming a bunch of smaller distros to essentially working in cooperation to eliminate competition. However, when people learn that most of the codebase for UnitedLinux comes from Suse, they will just buy it from Suse… So who wins?? The company who will still not realease a fully GPL’d version for me to download…
I would like to predict that UnitedLinux, in the end, will be a great way for SuSE to crush SCO Linux…
I don’t think SuSE needs any help or gimicks to squash SCO. They seem to be doing a pretty good job of it themselves.
I don’t have any inside knowledge or insights, although I do work across the street from SCO, however, it seems to me that they are doing the same stupid (yes SCO, I said stupid) thing that Novell did before they completely died (of course I realize that Novell is still around, but they are around not so much as a powerful company and a market leader, but rather around like matching terrycloth wrist and head bands and puffy leg warmers).
Like Novell, Caldera, excuse me, SCO has some excellent technology, but like Novell, they seem to operate under the delusion that everybody can magically discern the great superiority of their technology, and then stare out the front door of their offices dumbfounded when hardly anybody gets excited and buys their products.
SCO has taken their marketing lessons straight from Novell. Small and ineffective marketing. When they do manage a small marketing campaign, instead of being exciting or moving in any way, it ends up being as clinical and thrilling as a rectal exam.
Yeah SCO!
I would like to predict that UnitedLinux, in the end, will be a great way for SuSE to crush SCO Linux, Connectiva, and Turbo Linux. Honestly, the only winner in this game will be the one that wins the name recognition game. In this case their are two names to recognize. Once someone decides to go with UnitedLinux, then they will look for the next biggest name, SuSE.
I think it’s funny that there are four companies cooperating, and the first comment I see here is about the biggest of them going to “crush” the other three. Maybe we should remember ourself again and again first that all of them have their own market and thus aren’t really competiting directly (SCO Linux vs. RedHat in the US, SuSE vs. Mandrake in Europe, Connectiva in Latin & South America and Turbo Linux in East & Southeast Asia).
But I’m quite sure that in the long run the ties of those four companies will become that close that you could call it one single company, with differently named local outlets serving specific local needs.