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SuSE Going For Red Hat's Market

Posted by Hemos on from the gunning-for-the-top-dog dept.

IAEBG writes "SuSE Linux has enlisted the backing of server-software maker Veritas, an important step in supporting the needs of business computing and keeping up with top Linux seller Red Hat. Check out the article on News.com." Interesting step - now to see how it all pans out.

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  1. Market by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I'm pretty sure SuSE and Red-Hat were already in the same market.

  2. Sun Plug by Davak · · Score: 4, Insightful
    I love the Sun plug found in the article:
    The new software will make it easier for Unix customers to adopt Linux, Haff said. "It makes that move from a lot of Unix systems, and from Sun in particular, easier than it was before," he said. Sun Microsystems' Solaris is the most widely used version of Unix and a prime candidate for companies that want to save costs by using Linux on less-expensive Intel-based hardware.

    However, being a Sun guy myself, I worry if this is this one more blow against Sun's unstable current position.

    Davak
  3. Going for Red Hat's market?? by Cooper_007 · · Score: 5, Insightful
    At the moment I'm under the impression that SuSE parimarily targets European business whereas RedHat aims more for the US, so they're not really going for Red Hat's market. Please correct me if this is wrong.

    Aside from this, Red Hat and Suse are competitors. Of course Suse is going for Red Hat's market and you can rest assured that Red Hat is trying very hard to react in kind.

    Maybe someone should change the headline to "Suse signs a deal with Veritas"?

    Cooper
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  4. As a real sysadmin by nbvb · · Score: 4, Insightful

    As a real sysadmin (I don't play one on TV, I do the real thing), let me just say that this is most definitely a Good Thing (tm) for SuSE.

    There's no way, no how that they could write a volume manager or filesystem product that's even in the same league with VxFS and VxVM.

    The clustering product is also very, very robust. It's a simple, clean design, yet very powerful if you know how to take advantage of it. A welcome breath of fresh air after Sun Cluster 2.x and even 3.x (What dogs!)

    Does anyone else here know what Foundation Suite is? It provides a full volume management solution; no, this isn't so you can "mount your wind00z mp3z" or stuff like that. This is for real volume management, real disk replacement, real mirroring/striping/etc.

    And VxFS is probably the most kick-ass filesystem I've ever used. The journaling alone is just fantastic, and the speed.... damn, it's fast. Even better, using Quick I/O....

    Good for SuSE! About damned time Linux gained "real" volume management, filesystems & clustering.

    Real businesses trust their data to real companies. Veritas is one of 'em.