OSNews: http://www.osnews.com/story/19931/A_Red_Hat_Packed_With_Dynamite Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2009, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Mon, 06 Jul 2009 18:58:34 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif OSNews.com http://www.osnews.com Great to see! http://osnews.com/thread?320366 http://osnews.com/thread?320366 Really good to see Red Hat doing so well! Fri, 27 Jun 2008 08:03:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (obsidian) Comments RE: Great to see! http://osnews.com/thread?320370 http://osnews.com/thread?320370 Indeed, I can only say that it is well deserved. Red Hat has proven that it is a true open source company, and has invested a lot in nearly every facet of GNU/Linux. Recently, they have done a terrific job with IcedTea, virtual machine support, and infrastructure for rapid deployment and management. Fri, 27 Jun 2008 08:37:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (danieldk) Comments Of course http://osnews.com/thread?320387 http://osnews.com/thread?320387 Of course, Red Hat is making contracts! It has the best model, the best support and the best product. Why would any business switch from Red Hat? To what? If anything, they would switch what is not Read Hat to Red Hat. This is just plain logic. Fri, 27 Jun 2008 12:10:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (agrouf) Comments RE: Of course http://osnews.com/thread?320404 http://osnews.com/thread?320404 I expect there would be more than a few people inside Oracle who would disagree with you and be a little annoyed that RH had renewed their contracts with all their largest customers. I would guess that many of these are also running Oracle on the RHEL servers thus being a prime target for their Linux Distro. Fri, 27 Jun 2008 14:28:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (shotsman) Comments RE[2]: Of course http://osnews.com/thread?320440 http://osnews.com/thread?320440 We're both an Oracle (DB) and RedHat (OS) client and there's no comparison.

Yes, Oracle has improved and Unbreakable Linux is improving - but nothing beats reporting a bug on Sunday and getting it fixed on Monday...

Beyond having (IMHO) a bullet proof OS (Kudos to CentOS as well), RedHat has a very solid support model that simply works (tm).

- Gilboa Fri, 27 Jun 2008 18:56:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (gilboa) Comments RE[3]: Of course http://osnews.com/thread?320529 http://osnews.com/thread?320529 Wow, I always read about people complaining about red hat support. So it isn't bad then? Sat, 28 Jun 2008 21:39:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (sc3252) Comments RE[4]: Of course http://osnews.com/thread?320531 http://osnews.com/thread?320531
Wow, I always read about people complaining about red hat support. So it isn't bad then?


Like everything else in life YMMV.
At least in my own experience, RedHat support is top notch.

- Gilboa Sat, 28 Jun 2008 22:06:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (gilboa) Comments 2009? http://osnews.com/thread?320532 http://osnews.com/thread?320532 "In its first quarter of fiscal 2009", I thought it was still 2008! Sat, 28 Jun 2008 22:58:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (bullethead) Comments RE: 2009? http://osnews.com/thread?320663 http://osnews.com/thread?320663 Fiscal year is a different measurement.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiscal_year Mon, 30 Jun 2008 07:05:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Rahul) Comments