Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 Released

OrenWolf writes "CNET is running an article on the release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, which is Red Hat's shiny new 'enterprise' version of Linux. Major changes include more IBM Mainframe support, support for AMD64 (x86_64) processors (aka Opteron, Athlon64 and AthlonFX), changes to support options, integration of Stronghold Apache, and much more."

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Red Hat's movin' on up

[Qweezle]

Let me tell you; I own stock in Red Hat, I've researched their business strategies fervently...and these people know what they are doing with open source software. Red Hat posted a profit of 240,000 for the last quarter, the first profit EVER for a company mainly based on open-source software. Red Hat is moving forward, and fast, and there is no denying that soon, very soon, they could destroy Microsoft's server market share, and possibly kill poor ol' Sun Micrososystems(who I also own stock in). Red Hat, by the way, is a steal at its current 12.81 price, but I got in at 10.70. ;-)

No software death here

[693746]

It's interesting that while Microsoft is praising their new products at the expense of their old ones, Red Hat is still pimping their old Enterprise Linux, version 2.1, even after they've rolled out a shiny new offering. From the RHEL 2.1 page, which is linked directly off of the RHEL 3 page:

While version 3 provides many compelling new features, some customers will wish to continue to use version 2.1.

And then they go on to detail three reasons why you would want to stick with the old version!

A company offering an honest assessment of their new product offerings? What's going on? Is it April already?