http://blogs.the451group.com/opensource/2007/09/12/vendors-share-the-love-with-virtualization/ A blog for the enterprise open source community Tue, 07 Oct 2008 23:18:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 http://blogs.the451group.com/opensource/2007/09/12/vendors-share-the-love-with-virtualization/#comment-218354 451 CAOS Theory » Red Hat-Ubuntu pairing would have potential Thu, 24 Apr 2008 18:03:40 +0000 http://blogs.the451group.com/opensource/2007/09/12/vendors-share-the-love-with-virtualization/#comment-218354 [...] All of this is happening at a time when the use and management of server and desktop computers is coming together through virtualization and continued mixing of operating systems and server/desktop deployment. This makes me wonder if Red Hat could help Ubuntu on the server with greater support and integration of the ‘other’ Linux. Why would Red Hat do such a thing? We already see the company, wisely, offering deeper integration and support for Windows — why would they do that? The answer is reality. Enterprise datacenters and even divisions rarely run one OS, let alone Linux. There are typically Windows and others in play and there is also much greater acceptance and use of Linux, which has become less exotic and more like any other OS in the datacenter. Let’s remember too that choice and flexibility are no longer customer requests, they are expectations, and every major server vendor supports at least some OS variety. [...] [...] All of this is happening at a time when the use and management of server and desktop computers is coming together through virtualization and continued mixing of operating systems and server/desktop deployment. This makes me wonder if Red Hat could help Ubuntu on the server with greater support and integration of the ‘other’ Linux. Why would Red Hat do such a thing? We already see the company, wisely, offering deeper integration and support for Windows — why would they do that? The answer is reality. Enterprise datacenters and even divisions rarely run one OS, let alone Linux. There are typically Windows and others in play and there is also much greater acceptance and use of Linux, which has become less exotic and more like any other OS in the datacenter. Let’s remember too that choice and flexibility are no longer customer requests, they are expectations, and every major server vendor supports at least some OS variety. [...]

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