__/ [ Mark Kent ] on Friday 04 August 2006 09:49 \__
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> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> What is Red Hat's achilles heel? No, it's not SuSE, Windows, or Solaris.
>> Ubuntu anyone?
>>
>> http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=3416
>>
>>
>> Shuttleworth: Rumours of Red Hat's demise are somewhat exaggerated
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>| I woke up this morning to a flood of mail regarding Tony Mobily's
>>| commentary on Ubuntu vs Red Hat.
>>|
>>| My own view is that Red Hat will continue to do well in the specific
>>| areas that they have targeted - they are extremely well established
>>| in the high-availability enterprise Linux server market, and it will
>>| take some years before Ubuntu can make the same claim.
>> `----
>>
>> http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/49
>>
>> Why Red Hat will NOT go bust because of Ubuntu
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>| Free Software Magazine has an interesting article claiming that Red Hat
>>| with whither and die at the expense of Ubuntu.
>> `----
>>
>>
http://www.businessreviewonline.com/os/archives/2006/08/why_red_hat_wil.html
>
> Red Hat are mostly selling support services to large businesses;
> there's plenty of room for many more players in that space than there
> are now.
>
> Competition is no bad thing, of course, but the thinking that Ubuntu
> will somehow damage Red Hat is confusing the code with the support.
The bigger threat to Red Hat is probably Oracle. In fact, Oracle might fork
RHEL and support their own derivative distribution. This may become
interesting, but very few people like the taste of it (taking food out of
Red Hat's mouth, having had them produce valuable code).
Best wishes,
Roy
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