"When executives from VMware Inc. and commercial Linux vendor Red Hat said they would expand cooperation between the two companies on the Linux front, it signaled a possible shift in the way IT managers might look at operating system distribution in the future.
"At the heart of the VMware-Red Hat union was the development of a certification program that would cement a higher level of interoperability between VMware's virtualization platform and Red Hat's flagship operating system, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (RHEL5)..."
