-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Simon Jolle wrote: | Hi Red Hat users | | Anybody have experience running rPath appliances on a RHEL domU? What | are the technical advantages of those virtual appliances? I seems that | a couple Red Hat veterans work there.
I know some of the folks there. They're good people, and *very* smart. Having said that, I don't know why you would want to muddy the waters with different technologies. What I mean is, if you want to run a Linux domU, it makes sense to me to run RHEL on RHEL. If you have a problem, you have one vendor to go to. No finger pointing matches, and IIRC Red Hat's support organization is larger than rPath's whole employee base. We also have a bunch of seriously smart folks working on the virtualization stack, and a *huge* community around our virtualization technology with RHEL and Fedora and the rest of the world who use Xen and KVM. We're also fully Open Source, where it is my understanding that rPath has some proprietary bits. | What's the business case for those appliances? My understanding of rPath (and someone can correct me if I'm wrong) is that they're really going after the ISV market. In other words, they're trying to get ISVs to package up their apps on an rPath appliance image so that it gets distributed as either a domU image, a VMWare image, an installable DVD or something like that. Note that we have announced an Appliance Operating System (http://www.redhat.com/solutions/aos/) which will be based on RHEL, so you're back to the RHEL on RHEL story with all the benefits above. This is actually part of our "Any application, anywhere, any time" strategy, called Linux Automation. The goal is to cut costs and complexity by enabling our customers to use RHEL certified applications (and there are more third party apps certified on RHEL than any other Linux distro - over 3000) on any RHEL platform, whether it is a physical instance, a domU, an appliance or on a cloud like Amazon's EC2 without having to re-certify. For details about Linux Automation, see http://www.press.redhat.com/2007/11/07/linux-automation-any-application-anywhere-anytime/ Hope this is helpful and not too "sales-ish." - -- Thomas Cameron, RHCE, RHCX, CNE, MCSE, MCT Solutions Architect Team Lead, Central Region 512-241-0774 office / 512-585-5631 cell / 512-857-1345 fax Red Hat rated #1 in value by CIOs for four years running: http://www.redhat.com/about/news/prarchive/2007/CIO_Insight_Study.html -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHvxD5mzle50YHwaARAmfWAJ95fJgNkxFAkfh3M/0CNwSi89NftwCeN/n5 OnZWf4nvIhC2o/HOaAjs4X4= =yZvM -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ rhelv5-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list
