Red Hat: Disrupting Symantec Veritas?
According to the latest Red Hat claims:
With Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Platform, you don't need expensive add-on software from Veritas to enjoy the benefits of cloud computing and high availability clustering. Red Hat's Cluster Suite can save you $2000 / server.
Symantec already faces a formidable foe in Microsoft Corp. But now, the security and storage company must also defend itself from Red Hat Inc. and the open source market. In fact, Red Hat has launched an aggressive attack against Symantec’s Veritas business. Here’s the scoop.
According to the latest Red Hat claims:
With Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Platform, you don’t need expensive add-on software from Veritas to enjoy the benefits of cloud computing and high availability clustering. Red Hat’s Cluster Suite can save you $2000 / server.
Can Red Hat really save Veritas customers $2,000 per server? Frankly, The VAR Guy doesn’t know. But he is starting to believe this: No portion of the traditional software market is safe from open source’s advancements.
When it comes to delivering business value, top IT executives already rank Red Hat at the top of their software provider list, according to CIO Insight magazine. Now, Red Hat and the company’s JBoss middleware are nibbling away at BEA Systems, Oracle, IBM WebSphere and other platforms. And apparently, Symantec Veritas is next on Red Hat’s attack list.
Hello VarGuy,
I would have to that agree (based on market stats) that RedHat is THE player in the enterprise Linux space in most markets. Economics shows us that competition produces innovation and hopefully this is no exception. It is about time RedHat start highlighting the great FOSS options they and many others in the industry have to offer. Your statement, “No portion of the traditional software market is safe from open source’s advancements…” is perfectly on target. With the quality, stability, security, versatility and economics of FOSS there is little to stop its momentum.
Bravo my friend,
Joe
Joe: Trust The VAR Guy when he says you have a great first name. The VAR Guy was at a reseller conference today and nobody in the room was selling/promoting/deploying open source solutions. Depressing.
It’s still early for FOSS in many markets. But the trend is clear. Options like Red Hat, Novell, Canonical, SugarCRM, MySQL, Zimbra and a long list of other options are finding momentum with selected solutions providers.
The VAR Guy isn’t suggesting that the entire world will go open source. Remember, most customers for instance deploy SugarCRM on Windows servers. There will be a hybrid open source/closed source approach for years to come.
But most importantly: Customer choice is alive and well, thanks to open source disrupting traditional markets.
Software and human knowledge issue from similar didactic underpinnings. The advancement of Western thought would likely have been greatly impeded, had the Catholic Church maintained hegemony over its direction and fruits. Eric Raymond’s choice of the cathedral to represent proprietary software development’s nature is apt. The software Reformation has begun and is set to liberate all aspects of digital thinking.