Red Hat's Bluecurve (was: Red Hat 8.0 is 'official')

[bscott at ntisys.com]

On Sat, 5 Oct 2002, at 10:07pm, redwards at golgotha.net wrote:
>     But in a typical "kitchen sink" distro -- which includes Red Hat,
> Mandrake, Debian, etc. -- you can't give a generic name "e-mail program"
> and expect it to work out.

  Red Hat's approach appears to be to do major development and support of
one program (or maybe two) in a given category, make that the default they
hand to the clueless, but still include a bunch of other selections.  I
would guess their thinking is that, if you have a preferred choice, you can
invoke it yourself.  I can see where Red Hat is coming from, and I can
definitely see the appeal to corporate IT managers.  IT managers generally
consider diversity a sin.

-- 
Ben Scott <bscott at ntisys.com>
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