Red Hat’s biggest enemy? VMware

Written By
SJV
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
Aug 30, 2011

[ Thanks to Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols for this link.
]

Let’s play a game. Who do you think Red Hat’s biggest
enemy will be in a few years? Will it be Microsoft, Linux’s
traditional enemy? Could SUSE, the number two business Linux
distributor, make a try for the top? Might Ubuntu’s Canonical make
its big break into corporate Linux?

All good guesses, but Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst, is pretty sure
that Red Hat’s biggest competitor in 2016 will be VMware.


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SJV

Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols

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