Why Red Hat will NOT go bust because of Ubuntu
Free Software Magazine has an interesting article claiming that Red Hat with whither and die at the expense of Ubuntu.
It's an interesting theory, but one that is based on a fundamentally flawed understanding of enterprise software purchasing (closed or open source).
The theory goes that by targeting the corporate market and turning Red Hat Linux into the Fedora project, the company "effectively abandoned its desktop audience", while Ubuntu, which is a very fine operating system, has been growing steadily in the desktop market and is now poised to do the same on the server.
I was going to write a long response as to why this would not lead to the demise of Red Hat, but it comes down to this: however much they would like to, systems administrators do not make enterprise server operating system purchasing decisions.
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Why Red Hat will go bust because of Ubuntu», by Tony Mobily (in Issue #13), is terribly rude.
No, in my case, Red Hat was not my first love. I wast still faithful to Slackware for years. I liked RH 3.0.3, but not because .TGZ was so bad: at the time, dependencies were simpler.
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Yeah I don't see that
Yeah I don't see that happening. For one thing debian based servers suck, especially the way apache runs with the a2enmod and all that. There is so much stuff default on ubuntu that you have to deactivate. Not to mention if any configuration files for something gets deleted somehow no matter how many times you uninstall and reinstall it, it will not come back.
Red hat based servers is where it is at. I made the mistake of getting an ubuntu server once and it was a nightmare. Mainly with apache and ipv6. It used the ipv6 and at that time I could not disable it. The problem with that was when you would do netstat it would not display the full ip and you could not use netstat parsing scripts like dos deflate.
Ubuntu and debian is ok for desktop but it will never take over the server, enterprise, and workstation.