Kernel Space: The Enterprise Real-Time Feud

“At the end of November, LWN posted a pointer to Novell’s
announcement for its SUSE Linux Enterprise Realtime offering. The
resulting comments were surprisingly negative. Some readers took
exception to the language of the release–though it really is just
the standard tortured English which is seemingly required for press
releases. But others question the need for realtime response in
‘enterprise’ settings. Anybody who is still wondering about the
value of that product will be doubly confused now that Red Hat has
announced a realtime distribution service of its own. Clearly
somebody sees a need for deterministic response in big corporate
deployments.

“What’s going on here is that corporate operations are,
increasingly, being run by automated systems…”

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