Submitted by The Dogtail and Autobuild automated certification and testing tools will be offered to customers as part of Fedora initially, but could become a commercial value-added service in the future, Red Hat’s CEO said at a conference this week. Red Hat is on track to ship its Enterprise Linux 5 by the end of the year but certification, testing and standardizing the testing process have become more important to customers than the operating system, its CEO said.
For those considering doing research vs. just reprinting what Information Week says, note that Dogtail is a GPL’ed program, and so where as Red Hat can use it to make a commercial service, the rest of us will always be able to use it as well (regardless of whether we’re using a Red Hat-derived product or not).
Exactly. This is what I have always liked about Fedora/Redhat: all the python based system admin. tools they have created are GPL’d and everyone can use them. For some reason people like to vilify Redhat making them sound like the Microsoft of Linux but this is simply untrue. Just because a company is publicly owned doesn’t make it evil. Redhat has given back quite a lot to the community.
Edited 2006-06-03 14:17