| Good karma for Red Hat |
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| by Sam Varghese | |
| Wednesday, 22 November 2006 | |
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While unable to provide figures, McLaren claims that Red Hat has been experiencing good growth worldwide - 40 percent is his figure, though the base wasn't mentioned. "This is predominantly in the Unix to Linux migration space though we have been seeing some Windows to Linux migration as well," he says. Related storiesThe additional value, he says, comes from the 2000-plus independent software and hardware vendors who certify that their offerings will work with Red Hat. The acquisition of JBoss earlier this year meant Red Hat was now in a position to offer web applications for the enterprise, McLaren said. Red Hat will also be offering the latest virtualisation technology from Xen in its next enterprise Linux beta. It is noteworthy that again Red Hat has chosen to go with Xen - even though the best known virtualisation software, VMware, went open source some months ago. Once again, this underlines the fact that perceptions are very important in the free and open source software space. It also draws a line between a company which makes open source its primary business and one which sees open source only as a means of bettering its bottom line. {moscomment}
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