Coming: the Red Hat Exchange
p2pnet.net news:- Red Hat is to launch the new Red Hat Exchange to sell partners’ open-source software.
Slated to start later this year, it’ll mark a new stage both in Red Hat’s competition with proprietary software companies such as Microsoft, IBM and Oracle, and in its alliances with open-source companies, says ZDNet News, going on:
“The Red Hat Exchange is designed to help bring a much broader collection of open-source options to market, piggybacking on Red Hat’s brand and customer connections.”
The approach will increase competition with some business partners such as Oracle and IBM, the story has Red Hat’s Paul Cormier saying at an event to launch Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, but, “We can choose to stand in the way of these open-source technologies, or we can get on the bus and drive,” he stated. “We’re going to choose the latter.”
Though Red Hat, “hopes the new operating system will help it increase its market lead,” many of its new features are already offered by Novell, “including the highly-touted integration of virtualization software, which allows companies to run several ‘virtual’ machines on a single computer server, saving cost and energy,” says the Mercury News, adding:
“Nevertheless, Red Hat is well on its way toward creating a full open-source architecture to compete with the entire ’stack’ of software provided by proprietary vendors, from storage software to middleware that helps software applications communicate.”
Also See:
ZDNet News – Red Hat bands with open-source allies, March 14, 2007
Mercury News – Red Hat touts new system as Linux hub, March 14, 2007
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