RedHat, Fujitsu Enter Into Marketing Agreement

andyring writes "According to Cnet, RedHat and Fujitsu signed a partership agreement where the companies will jointly develop and market for Fujitsu's products. Fujitsu hs a strong presence in Asia, a place Microsoft has been trying to cultivate."

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RedHat's Asian efforts...

[jkrise]

can be summarised as:
1. Providing RHCE certfication exams, and certs.
2. Poor or no mirrors for downloading distros.
3. Little or no support offerings for their products.
4. Few relationshipd with h/w vendors that matter in Asia.

Only the last is being addressed here. Even little known firms like Turbo Linux have a huge base in Asia, by virtue of having strong support base and relationships.

Fujistu has got a past in supporting alterntive OS

[OberonX]

I remember Fujitsu being one the first PC companies adding BeOS to their PCs in Japan during the brief glorious of BeOS a few years back. I can't find the story now but it was quite big for the small BeOS community.

and EMEA

[bryam]

Fujitsu have strong presence in EMEA, like Fujitsu-Siemens.

No probs with my laptop

[fille]

Strange, I own a laptop of Fujitsu-Siemens and Linux (Redhat 8) has no problems with the hardware. Even sound, etc works great out of the box. And it's a very cheap model (Liteline 5133 I think)..

Re:Dosen't make sence

[ocelotbob]

RTA. This isn't about consumer grade, or even professional grade products. This is about enterprise grade products. Redhat's trying to push into the six figure+ server market, a market that you need marketing agreements to get into, as such a market doesn't want their systems to go down. Ever. Fujitsu, though they're shaking off a bad rep in the drive market, still is pretty well known for their servers.