Ubuntu's Need to Catch a Wave | Linux Today

Ubuntu’s Need to Catch a Wave

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
May 19, 2008

[ Thanks to Dag Wieers
for this link. ]

“Let me play devil’s advocate here. Mark Shuttleworth’s recent
pledge to join a synchronised release plan for Enterprise Linux
distributions is no more than a wish to benefit from a lot of work
that Novell and Red Hat are already doing in the Enterprise
space…

“Red Hat’s Enterprise Linux offering is a very important
proposition to businesses, not only because Red Hat guarantees (and
has proven) to support each RHEL version for 7 years after general
availability, but mostly because each version is updated with new
hardware support every 6 months….”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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