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RedHat, Fujitsu Enter Into Marketing Agreement

Posted by timothy on from the smartness dept.

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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  1. is this bad for sun by Miguel+de+Icaza · · Score: 0, Insightful

    arn't fujistu supposed to be McNeally's buddies?

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  2. this could be very good by the-dude-man · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This could be a very good for linux....it provides a very large scale devlopment enviornment for linux...and lead to more submissions, and review of code...not to mention more discoverys of bad design and security holes...

    maybe redhat will find out that by having everything tunred on by defaut, and having to work for 2 hours to turn it all off really pisses off sysadmins.

    I've been finding redhat to be a progressivly more and more annyoing linux distro, but this could be their chance to turn things around. Personally i opt for gentoo....small, secure, and works very well. With the amount of attention they will get from devlopment with this, Red hat could follow that line.

    at the very least i hope they will get rid of the "rpm hell" that people go thru when you go to upgrade major components.

    1. Re:this could be very good by Lord+Kholdan · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Are you saying that as amount of Linux users increase so does the amount of people contributing to Linux? I dont buy that. Those people who are interested in messing around kernel already have Linux (or *BSD) installed, those who are the potential growth market for Linux are the people who dont know what is the difference between browser and Internet and dont really care. Now, I dont mean this in a bad way, heck, in a way I'm one of those people. That's just the way it is.

    2. Re:this could be very good by adamfranco · · Score: 5, Insightful

      at the very least i hope they will get rid of the "rpm hell" that people go thru when you go to upgrade major components.

      Ahhh, RPM hell, how I've missed you since I switched to...

      ...RedHat? Apt-get and its Synaptic GUI both run on RedHat and Matthias Saou of FreshRPMs maintains a giant archive of currently 1655 packages specifically for RedHat.

      Since I went back to RedHat last November after years with Mandrake and Libranet, I have yet to install an RPM. Every week I just do an
      apt-get update
      apt-get upgrade
      and get all of the patches for security holes posted here on /.

      RedHat should really toss some coin or at least help at FreshRPMs as they make RedHat the perfect compromise for people like me who love Linux (haven't used any Microshaft product in 9 months, with the exception of using Windows to play BF1942 for 3 hours/week), but "just want it work". My flat-mate is a complete Gentoo fan and seems to actually enjoy tweeking his kernel every week or so. Well, actually, he has to keep tweeking his kernal because there always seems to be a problem with USB or Raid or some other problem. So what does he do? He comes over to my RedHat box to download photos from his camera. For me at least (a medium-grade Linux user -- I write a lot of bash scripts...) the RedHat/apt-get combo is the ideal combination of ease-of-use, prettiness, and power.

      In addition, I've found that a pretty KDE setup is one of the best ways to generate Linux converts, especially when you show the the 35seconds it takes to install DVD software (Ogle) or upgrade all the software on your system, all through the VERY pretty and simple Synaptic GUI.

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    3. Re:this could be very good by dsplat · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Actually, I do buy the argument because we've been seeing it. I'm using a driver for my NIC that was developed by Intel and nVidia developed the driver for my graphics card. Because of the number of people using Linux, there is a large enough market to make it worthwhile to develop the drivers. Okay, that doesn't add knew core functionality, but it generates a virtuous cycle. New hardware is better supported now than it was a few years ago. That makes adoption of Linux even more attractive for people who don't want to hack the kernel or don't have the time because they are working on other things, like porting apps to Linux. It's the Network Effect. Some products become more useful simply because their user base grows. Communication technologies are the classic example of that.

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  3. Clever RedHat by Rosco+P.+Coltrane · · Score: 3, Insightful
    It looks like little RedHat is making big powerful friends to deter SCO from even thinking of harassing them. That's pretty clever if that's the case.

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  4. makes sense for both of them by feepcreature · · Score: 2, Insightful
    It's good for both parties (and the rest of us).

    Open Source in general can use all the (competent) help it can get - and Fujitsu seems to be contributing development resources. This will help the Red Hat distros in particular, but also linux in general.

    And Fujitsu can only benefit from supplying servers that run a reliable and cost-effective O/S. Increasing their reliability factor can only be a good thing after the disk problems you mention.

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  5. Slashdot Stories by KoolDude · · Score: 4, Insightful


    Fujitsu hs a strong presence in Asia, a place Microsoft has been trying to cultivate.

    From the Article:

    it does have a strong position in Asia, where Red Hat is trying to expand.

    I know this is Slashdot, but modification of the article line to mention Microsoft(incorrectly) in the story just for attracting readers is not doing a great deal to improve anything. I like to bash Microsoft with jokes once in a while, but notes like this one are to be criticized, IMHO.

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  6. Ghost by Talisman · · Score: 2, Insightful

    "maybe redhat will find out that by having everything tunred on by defaut, and having to work for 2 hours to turn it all off really pisses off sysadmins."

    The same thing can be said about Windows machines, especially from Win2K forward. They are highly configurable, if you know wtf you are doing, and the MS defaults are often insecure, useless or just annoying. SP3 addresses many issues, but it still requires lots of registry tweaking and time spent using the Admin tools to get everything *just* right.

    So what I do is have one IMAGE machine that is always kept *perfectly* tweaked, with all the latest patches, bug fixes, upgrades, etc. installed, so when we get a new machine or one of the existing ones takes a dump, I just Ghost the tweaked machine and 5 minutes later, the workstation is good-to-go.

    The same can be done for Red Hat machines.

    Talisman

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