On Wed, 12 Nov 2008 09:18:41 +0000, Invisible wrote:

> Jim Henderson wrote:
>> On Tue, 11 Nov 2008 20:39:06 +0000, Orchid XP v8 wrote:
>> 
>>>> You could try submitting your resumé to Novell, RedHat and the likes.
>>> ...are either of those companies still going? I thought Novell went
>>> under years ago, and RedHat vanished off the face of the earth once
>>> they realised that trying to sell Linux services isn't profitable.
>> 
>> Who do I work for again? ;-)
> 
> Uh... you tell me?

Have a look at the IP address and do a reverse lookup on this message.  
I've mentioned it before in this very forum - and in discussions you 
participated in.

>> And RedHat is currently selling more Linux than Novell.  Turns out
>> customers *want* service contracts for things their business depends
>> on.
> 
> OK. So why have I not heard anything about RedHat for several years?

Very likely a product of your choice of reading material.  Have you 
looked at a copy of Linux Format lately?  There recently was a huge 
article there on training, specifically about RedHat training.  With a 
big ad in the middle of the article, at that.

> Have they gone into some kind of specialised market or something? Once
> upon a time you used to hear of them quite a bit, and now they seem
> awful quiet...

Nope, they haven't gone into a specialized market.  They're losing market 
share to Novell (which owns SUSE Linux) and to Canonical, but absolutely 
still around.

If you spend all your time around Windows advertising and gaming 
magazines, you probably won't hear much about Linux.  Though with the MS/
Novell deal, Microsoft is selling SUSE Linux Enterprise Server to their 
customers as well - surely you've heard of *that* deal?  It's been 
ongoing for about 2 years now....

Jim

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