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Red Hat Bets Big On Cloud Target

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the go-where-the-people-are dept.

eldavojohn writes "Red Hat's CEO prophetically saith 'The clouds will all run Linux' in a brief interview before the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo. Here's the skinny: Red Hat management tools take a back seat to grid computing goals, high switching costs are the trick to surviving slow periods, Microsoft's interoperability tools are vaporware, they're striving to catch up to VMWare, Ubuntu is not the competition, JBoss is growing twice as fast as RHEL and Amazon pays the fee while Google wears its own Red Hat for free."

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  1. Good typing... by houstonbofh · · Score: 3, Funny

    Nice.... Close to the top and I misspell "cloud." Friday can't come soon enough...

    1. Re:Good typing... by MightyYar · · Score: 4, Funny

      "The could" is in a way a more appropriate term. Could computing - I like it.

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    2. Re:Good typing... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      "The could" is in a way a more appropriate term. Could computing - I like it.

      Inteviewer: "Do you see could computing opening up doors to video analysis?"
      Whitehurst: *shrugs* "I don't know, it could ... see, that's the beauty of 'could computing.'"
      Inteviewer: "Right, I'm familiar with the name ... now, was benefit does this have over a low level distributed system or a Beowulf cluster?"
      Whitehurst: "It certainly could have more benefits. Then again, it's possible that it could not. See, could computing could open up your wildest imaginations ... maybe."

  2. Re:Does that qualify as irony? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Isn't cloud computing "(condensed) vaporware" by definition?

  3. Notes on Linux for Clouds by RevWaldo · · Score: 2, Funny

    - Supported by the Free Stratosphere Foundation.
    - The latest version is Sneaky Stratus but Crafty Cumulus is now in beta.
    - An open-source version of Rainbows exists but Microsoft owns the license to the visible light portion of the spectrum and is currently seeking an injunction in federal courts.
    - The lightweight version is usually recommended. The full-featured version (Nimbostratus Ultimate) may overload your cloud, resulting in fog.

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  4. Re:Translation please... by geekoid · · Score: 2, Funny

    Value: Get your ass someplace fast.
    Extract: Extracting monetary profit from society.

    It's wrong, the airlines can make a profit, but we are in a standoff.
    Once the people with the deepest pockets are the only ones left, prices will go up; which is what needs to happen. They cast for a ticket doesn't cover their Total cost.

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  5. distro elitism is part of what sucks people in by SaberTaylor · · Score: 2, Funny

    reference
    http://xkcd.com/456/

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