Re: Carving out a niche (Re: Redhat 6.1)

[Greg Lindahl <lindahl cs virginia edu>]

> 	Getting back to the original question of self-sustainment vs.
> adaptation.. If the attitude is one of self-sustainment, these wrong 
> ideas about the Alpha platform are not an issue to be dealt with; people
> likely to use AlphaLinux already know the truth.  Adaptation would be to
> present AlphaLinux as both a good server and desktop platform - breaking
> the usual stereotype that Alphas make good servers but not much else. 

Given that talk is cheap, I'd expect just about anyone to do the
second, except I'd phrase it more like "AlphaLinux machines can be
used as desktops, but they're really good today for big number
crunching, like weather forcasting supercomputers." (I'm so subtle,
aren't I?) Attacking the desktop and small server market depends on
low price machines, and that's out of our hands. Only API and Compaq
can make those happen. The software is already mostly ready.

-- g