Red Hat, one of the most well-known names in Linux today, has announced a new version of RHE (Red Hat Enterprise) Linux. RHEL 5 was created with a close and strong working relationship with customers unlike other versions that used very few suggestions if any. Red Hat is taking the open source collaborative principles that customers are using today and applying them to other parts of the business, including services, systems management and partnerships.
"We have been developing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 for two years with our customers and partners driving the agenda. Their pain points were clear: they were unable to consume all of the technology being sold to them, and it was not solving their business problems effectively. Our resolve has been and will always be that we will deliver software that solves real business needs," said Paul Cormier, Executive Vice President of Engineering, Red Hat.
RHEL 5 significantly improves the attributes that many corporate IT managers are looking for, and what Red Hat already offers. Additional performance, scalability and security features. There is also extensive new hardware support, an expanded development environment, improved interoperability with Microsoft Windows and UNIX. This adds up to what many hope to be a cost saving solution to growing infrastructures around the world in the IT backrooms and datacenters.
Even Intel was in on the developments and creation of RHEL 5. "By closely collaborating since the early stages, Intel and Red Hat have innovated and accelerated new technologies such as virtualization," said Doug Fisher, Vice President and General Manager of Intel's Software and Solutions Group. "The combination of leading edge Quad-Core Intel Xeon processor-based platforms and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 gives our customers impressive performance, power savings and reliability."
The release from Red Hat marks the first major open-source release in two years. Some analysts say that this release is a major push for Red Hat to remain on top in the Linux market. There are others out there that are attempting to dethrone the king of Linux for the home, and business user. Novell released SuSE Enterprise Server, which beat Red Hat hands down on Virtualization, Novell offered XEN with SuSE Server and it wasn’t until RHEL 5 that there is strong virtualization support offered from Red Hat using XEN.
Oracle is in the open-source market, and newcomer Ubuntu is also creating a buzz in the datacenters and server rooms across the IT world. The movement for open-source solutions that work hand in hand no matter the infrastructure in place is what many IT managers, and technology dependant companies need. RHEL might be the best fit or it might not. This is one of those releases that will start slow and over time the benefit will either show a positive impact or show no impact at all.
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