Leading Linux seller Red Hat has recently launched the second version of its enterprise operating system (OS) which touts improved performance, scalability and compatibility with a much wider range of hardware platforms. Coupled with plans to expand its Asian footprint, the firm is hoping to mount an ambitious challenge on the dominant Unix platform and ultimately send the incumbent server OS to its grave. Other Red Hat employees claim the same.
Red Hat: Challenging the Unix Crown
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If by that you mean they plan on pushing a slowly evolving, overpriced but rock-solid OS, then yeah, I can see it…
Most of the questions and answers are very familiar to me — how old is this interview? when was it originaly posted?
If by that you mean they plan on pushing a slowly evolving, overpriced but rock-solid OS, then yeah, I can see it…
What is so expensive about Solaris + Java Enterprise System? What has Red Hat got on their software portfolio to compete with that depth and bredth of middleware? nothing. They have Apache, JBoss and a few other sundry opensource applications thrown into a distribution with little or no emphasis by them to actuall create a solution where by their whole middleware line can integrate with each other rather than looking like a badly put together mechano kit.
as it says on the interview: 2003-09-15
It was an interview already featured, just linked from here.
“What is so expensive about Solaris + Java Enterprise System?”
I really couldn’t say as I’ve not looked into it, nor is this article about that particular package. It also doesn’t seem to have anything to do with this article.
“a few other sundry opensource applications thrown into a distribution with little or no emphasis by them to actuall create a solution where by their whole middleware line can integrate with each other rather than looking like a badly put together mechano kit.”
Where exactly did anything I say have anything to do with this? Not that your point there is lost on me.
You posted:
“If by that you mean they plan on pushing a slowly evolving, overpriced but rock-solid OS, then yeah, I can see it…”
How about reading what you posted. You have implied that Linux is replacing an “slowly evolving, overpriced but rock-solid OS”, that OS being a commercial UNIX. Care to rephrase your original post to reflect what you were trying to say?
The legacy OS’s can’t grow faster, their hyper growth phase was in the 70’s and 80’s and 90’s. GNU/Linux in the 90’s started from zero so it’s growth looks astounding, but it will also eventually plateau.
The sad thing is that we still have to use Unix and the unix clones. So much for 30 years of research, nothing inovative, still typing at the keyboard, quaint.