Red Hat Not Seeing Microsoft, Ubuntu as Threats

Ian Price writes "Red Hat is shrugging off Microsoft's entry into the cluster computing space after Microsoft announced that it has completed the code for its Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003 targeting high-performance computing. From the article: 'Scott Crenshaw, general manager of enterprise Linux platform at Red Hat, dismissed Microsoft's entry into cluster computing. "They're playing catch-up," he said. "Linux is often associated with high-performance computing, but Windows has never achieved that on a large scale."' Crenshaw also commented with respect to Ubuntu: 'Their user base is still small, so we're not seeing the impact of it [Ubuntu] so far.'"

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Re:ubuntu is getting stronger by the day

[Tough Love]

Dapper is lame. Looked at the ubuntu forums lately? It's full of cries for help. DHCP broken (though to be fair, it's broken in Debian/Testing too), ATI/Nvidia/Mesa broken (what dev moron decided to include hot off the press ATI/Nvidia drivers 3 days before release?), Sound support broken (until you fiddle with it); I hardly think RH has much to worry about with this lame duck.

I am running Dapper, have been for more than a month, it's not broken, dhcp works fine, sound works fine, 3D accelerated graphics (i915) works fine. Red Hat employee by any chance?

Re:Microsoft and Ubuntu not a threat

[JonJ]

I have already checked it out. CUPS - broken. Lot of packages incompatable and not working. I'm using Fedora Core 5 and CUPS now, working flawlessly, contrary to the fucking mess CUPS in Dapper is. Enterprise distro my arse. Oh, and to the fuckwad that was calling a distro for "OpenSUSE"; There is no distro that is named OpenSUSE, the distro is SUSE. Jesus, every time there is a piece about Red Hat here, every idiot comes crawling out from under a rock to compare apt to rpm, so, here's what I think: Ubuntu users are now mainly idiots not using it in the enterprise and thinks that: "Hey, I can use this apt thing, it's perfect for any other person and company out there". Dumb fuckers.