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Ubuntu to Bring About Red Hat's Demise?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the straight-from-the-tea-leaves dept.

Tony Mobily has written a thought-provoking editorial for Free Software Magazine that makes the bold prediction of Red Hat's eventual demise at the hands of Mark Shuttleworth and Ubuntu. Calling on memories of Red Hat alienating their desktop user base to focus on their corporate customers and making money, Mobily states that many of those alienated desktop users are also system administrators who now feel more comfortable with Ubuntu and will make the choice to use Ubuntu Server over Red Hat now and in the future.

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  1. Re:Ubuntu *has* paid enterprise support, people! by dAzED1 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Alternatively, has anyone ever actually used RedHat support? *I* wasn't impressed...

    And I haven't been impressed by Ubuntu. Not their support - just the distro itself. I HATE the freaking hand-holding. It's worse than what Microsoft does.

    I've never needed to use support from RedHat myself. I've run 4 different distros in corp environments, never needed support for any of them. If there's a problem, I can find it myself, and maybe I'll let them know if I have time. But Ubuntu?

    I don't see sysadmins flocking to it. I see unemployed hippies that volunteer at their local libraries using it, but not one single professional linux sysadmin that I know uses Ubuntu. Tried it out, sure. Use it for any period of time? Hell no. If I want my hand held, I'll go install XP and let Clippie tell me what to do.