[sf-lug] The future of Redhat?

[David Sterry]

The future of Redhat has more to do with how it services its customers 
than how many partnerships or endeavors competitors are making. They 
should not be concerned about Microsoft & Novell or Oracle.

If they really must partner with a company, how about Google? Don't they 
use Redhat?

-Dave

Keith Keller wrote:

>On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 06:09:37PM -0800, Tony wrote:
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>>Can Red Hat go it alone?
>>By Phil Hochmuth
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>>All this puts the squeeze on Red Hat. Things could get
>>really bad for the company if large enterprise ships
>>running Oracle flock to the database maker for
>>support, and Microsoft/Novell come up with a real
>>offering to make Linux/Windows environments run better
>>than Microsoft/Red Hat environments.
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>Well, my $0.01: considering how poorly any Windows environment works at
>all, I am extremely skeptical that MS/Novell can make Windows/SuSE work
>better than Windows/RedHat.  And, <bias>considering how poorly SuSE
>currently works, they have a long way to go to catch up to even
>RedHat</bias>.
>
>I think the Oracle announcement has to scare Redhat more: one competent
>company competing in the same space as RH is more dangerous than two
>inept companies (yes, even when one is MS) competing in a relatively
>different space.  RH makes money off service contracts, for the most
>part; certainly MS isn't about to do that, and I don't see Novell as
>being able to offer better.  But Oracle certainly can, and when
>integrated with Oracle dbms support, that could be a great deal for
>corporate types who are already tied to Oracle.
>
>OTOH, there will always be outfits that can't afford (or don't wish to
>afford, or don't need) Oracle, so there is a niche that RH can fill.
>Whether it's a big enough niche to sustain them is a big question.
>
>--keith
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