Let's hope one day Red Hat could supplant the dominance of Microsoft/IBM in the "enterprise" area (so instead of the expensive .NET tools, we could use JBoss with standard JEE6 and/or Seam+Hibernate).
I secretly wished Red Hat to acquire more "enterprise" software stack out there (i.e.: Zimbra, Alfresco, Liferay, Compiere) and MySQL (gone)/EnterpriseDB to provide more end-to-end offering.
Congratulations to Red Hat for producing a Linux distribution that I have used for most of those 10 years. Stable for many years at a time with binary compatibility, it has always been a given that if a commercial piece of software supported Linux it will run on RHEL.
Great job. RedHat makes some awesome stuff. I just wish that they could drop some of the "not invented here" and "luser" culture, which bit me more than once and made me leave for Debian. Somtimes I miss the good 'ol days :-)
Passed the RHCE back in 2006, at the time was spending the days (and many nights) running high end RHEL systems. Stability wise everything was great, except issues with EMC drivers and booting from SAN. These were ironed out by vendor support - which is why it can pay to have that level of enterprise support; it just depends on your environment.
These days, I use Ubuntu everywhere including here - http://hackertarget.com. It is just easier to quickly get up and running (not because its Free I could be using CentOS).
What about that do you not understand? They keep RHEL as up to day as most businesses care to have it, the only thing really connecting RHEL 1 and RHEL 6 is the name, and there isn't much reason for that to wear out..
Unless maybe you are talking about Redhat the company, not RHEL? This article is about 10 years of RHEL.. Redhat has been around for nearly two decades now.
Red Hat distro was created in 1994, but in 2003 (~10 years ago) they created RHEL, merged vanilla Red Hat with Fedora, and shifted corporate strategy to RHEL.
Amusing they mark the start of the Fedora Project at the University of Hawaii, don't mention CentOS at all.
Let's hope one day Red Hat could supplant the dominance of Microsoft/IBM in the "enterprise" area (so instead of the expensive .NET tools, we could use JBoss with standard JEE6 and/or Seam+Hibernate).
I secretly wished Red Hat to acquire more "enterprise" software stack out there (i.e.: Zimbra, Alfresco, Liferay, Compiere) and MySQL (gone)/EnterpriseDB to provide more end-to-end offering.