Cloud.com (see previous CloudAve coverage), the open source cloud provider for enterprise and service providers, last week announced that they are supporting RedHat Enterprise Linux 6. This will allow enterprises and service providers to immediately take advantage of the new features available in the newly released RHEL 6 and extend it into cloud using their [...]
Oracle Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel: A Clean Break With Redhat?
September 21, 2010 By Leave a Comment
As a part of Oracle Open World 2010, Oracle made some interesting announcements that is stirring up the tech circles. The first announcement is Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud, which are cloudwashed high end Non Uniform Memory Access (NUMA) servers. This is basically Oracle’s attempt to swim with the cloud computing wave. After trying to dismiss [...]
Red Hat Takes Another Step Towards Cloud Computing
April 28, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Redhat, the poster child of open source and maker of most popular Linux distribution in the enterprise market, took another step into the cloudy future. Redhat recently released version 5.5 of their popular Enterprise Linux distribution. They followed it up with an announcement focused mainly on the hybrid nature of the enterprise cloud adoption in [...]
Redhat Trying To Differentiate Themselves From Forks And Third Party Support Services
December 2, 2009 By 2 Comments
The beauty of Open Source is that the customers are not tied or locked into a single vendor. For example, customers can use any Linux distribution and take support from third party support services companies. Plus, anyone can take the source code of any open source software, do some customizations and offer it as a [...]
Microsoft And Redhat Get Cozy With Each Other
October 9, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Oracle-Redhat controversy is just ugly capitalism and it may not be the end of Redhat
October 28, 2006 By 4 Comments
Image via CrunchBase Few days back Oracle CEO Larry Ellison announced in Oracleworld that the company will offer support to Redhat Enterprise Linux for half the cost of Redhat’s offering. This sent shockwaves across the techbiz community and Redhat’s shares went tumbling down 30% (the shares had recovered a little bit since then).
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