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Red Hat Not Seeing Microsoft, Ubuntu as Threats

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the keeping-a-stiff-upper-lip dept.

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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  1. Gandhi by Turmio · · Score: 4, Funny

    • First they ignore you <- we're here, folks!
    • Then they fight y...
    Oh, wait... You say it's RedHat ignoring Microsoft and not the other way around??
  2. Re:Famous last words by Ambidisastrous · · Score: 2, Funny

    In theory, it would be easier to port a Windows app to a Windows cluster. I don't see this catching on with scientific researchers at all, but in the financial world, they're just not as concerned about up-front costs if it fits their current computer system and works as a drop-in solution. A bank running Windows desktops and Windows servers could easily fall for it... I mean, go for it.

  3. Re:In related news... by seweso · · Score: 1, Funny

    I agree.

    Microsoft simply needs to add two buttons to Visual Studio .Net which say "create cluster project" and "deploy to cluster". Then it is only a small step for a lot of programmers to use Windows Cluster System.

  4. Nightmares... by gummyb34r · · Score: 4, Funny

    1) The right way of spamming the world: A top 100 cluster under Microsoft OS control gets a I.Love.U2 virus
    2) An interactive assistant - Microsoft PaperClip  - grows fast and takes the world under its control
    3) Finally Vista runs at decent speed. Modest Min Sys Req - a cluster
    4) The_Big_Bang_simulation.vbp

  5. Re:Red Hat doesn't need to do much. by Ed+Avis · · Score: 2, Funny

    I think you could ask them about Dune 2.

    'The noble Atreides' => Fedora
    'The evil Harkonnen' => Debian
    'The insidious Ordos' => SuSE
    Fremen => Ubuntu
    Sardaukar => Gentoo

    --
    -- Ed Avis ed@membled.com
  6. Re:Microsoft has been into clustering for years. by C_Kode · · Score: 2, Funny

    MS has bigger clusters than that! Most botnets are Windows boxes! How about a 1.5 million node cluster!

    http://news.com.com/Bot+herders+may+have+controlle d+1.5+million+PCs/2100-7350_3-5906896.html