RHEL 5: How's It Going?
Commercial Linux distributor Red Hat hosted its eponymous customer and partner summit last week, and among the many announcements that the company made, including raising the curtain a little on its desktop strategy, partnering with IBM for Linux support on mainframes (more on that in next week's issue), and launching the Red Hat Exchange, the company's executives were obviously keen on talking about Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, which was launched two months ago.
Tim Yeaton, senior vice president of worldwide marketing and general manager of Red Hat's Products Division, didn't provide specifics about how many RHEL 5 licenses that the company has distributed in the past 60 days, but he did give some anecdotal evidence about how RHEL 5 is being accepted.
Red Hat, by making money on support contracts rather than on sales of software licenses, doesn't actually get paid when customers upgrade from RHEL 3 or RHEL 4 to RHEL 5. So its business model doesn't focus on moving customers according to its own schedule and financial need. The company does, however, want to add features that make RHEL more useful and wants the features and better integration with other software for its RHEL product to attract new customers, who certainly do give Red Hat fresh money when they buy a support contract.
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