Comments on: Red Hat: Disrupting Symantec Veritas?

By: Rambo Tribble

Rambo Tribble — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 16:30:01 +0000

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.

By: The VAR Guy

The VAR Guy — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 00:33:03 +0000

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.

By: Joseph Guarino

Joseph Guarino — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 20:43:11 +0000

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