Busy Red Hat
Red Hat Adds Application Software
Red
Hat has changed and extended its business model, announcing the
Red Hat Enterprise Application family of products.
This software portfolio will start with Content Management
and Portal servers (from their acquisition of Ars Digita) to go
with their Enterprise Linux software.
This will allow Red Hat to offer a complete enterprise
solution, delivered and managed through the Red Hat Enterprise
Network and provided with the same 24/7 support.
The Red Hat Enterprise Content Management System and Portal Server are
available now. We’d
guess that Red Hat partners who offer their own Linux
infrastructure software may be less than thrilled with this turn
of events. We’d
like to tell you how they compare on price, but we’ve been
unable so far to get pricing details.
Red Hat Is Extending Its Partner Activities
Red
Hat is very busy. In
addition to its new software offerings, it has been signing up new
relationships with Linux hardware vendors.
For example,
HP
and Red Hat have signed an agreement making HP a preferred global
service provider to deliver and support the complete Red Hat
Enterprise Linux product line on HP industry-standard
hardware.
This
includes Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS, Enterprise Linux ES and
Enterprise Linux WS. Red
Hat will deliver technical support to back up HP's customer
support services. HP
will support the Red Hat Enterprise Linux family of solutions on
both 32-bit Intel architecture and Itanium platforms.
This
is in addition to existing Red Hat agreements with vendors like
IBM who simply expanded their existing agreements with Red Hat to
support the entire Red Hat line, including the new products.
Red
Hat then received a further endorsement.
It’s been a poorly kept secret that the Sun Linux
distribution was actually an augmented version of Red Hat.
Sun has now decided to forgo its own distribution and has
now decided to ship the Red Hat Linux distribution, a bow in the
direction of customers, who prefer the industry standard.
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