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1. musicman (musicman@nu.federati.net)'s status on Wednesday, 29-Jul-2020 13:48:14 EDT musicman
   look at my purdy picture: https://www.openlogic.com/open-at-home
   1. lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Wednesday, 29-Jul-2020 14:34:50 EDT lnxw48a1

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      @musicman Enterprise Architect now? #Fancy
      1. musicman (musicman@nu.federati.net)'s status on Thursday, 30-Jul-2020 10:50:58 EDT musicman

         in reply to
         yeah, the whole "Enterprise" thing is our marketing thing. Like I don't know if our sales people would literally tell a startup to go to Tidelift because it is harder to get a company to switch than to join but to me Tidelift is our only competitor. That said, what we offer is very different than what Tidelift offers.
         
         I know some in the organization see Red Hat as a competitor, and sure, our CentOS offering directly competes with RHEL, but there are literally 30 people in the openlogic slack channel and at least three of those people are splitting time with other teams (I don't know about all the sales and marketing folks) and one of them is an IT person.
         
         Of course, we do have an IT, HR, and finance that are shared resources and other than the one, I don't think any of those are in the group.
         
         As for Red Hat, Wikipedia says:
         Number of employees
         13,400 (as of February 28, 2019)
         
         I have plenty of thoughts about our competition, but we support something like 400 packages, so the list of competitors on single applications ends up being really long and not an interesting conversation, so I will just leave it there.