Red Hat Releases Enterprise Linux 5

An anonymous reader writes "Red Hat has a new release out for Enterprise Linux, reports Ars Technica. Along with several anticipated new features, Enterprise Linux 5 marks the rollout of the RedHat Exchange (RHX), which will be a source for commercial third-party software applications. 'RHX will allow consumers to buy software support services for third-party open-source technologies like MySQL database software and SugarCRM customer management systems directly from Red Hat ... Linux vendor Novell, which recently partnered with Microsoft to provide stronger Windows interoperability, is already carving out a growing portion of the enterprise Linux market. Red Hat also has to contend with proprietary database vendor Oracle, who now offers commercial Linux support for Red Hat users.'"

Could be the next step...

[kosmosik]

I can imagine most posters will say "dupe" cause this relates to RHEL5 release. But the real news is this RHX thingie.

I think it is a good idea but it should be vendor neutral. How about something like SourceForge but focused on providing a platform for comercial support and stuff like this (stuff that organizations with money *will* to pay for).

Re:No waves in the pool.

[tobiasly]

Whatever the technology crowd might think of Red Hat's new toys, the markets sure don't seem to care. Their last five days [yahoo.com] show a large amount of "who cares" on Wall St.

That's because this isn't news. Everyone has known for quite a while that RHEL5 would be released in this timeframe. Wall Street is controlled by big money, and big money doesn't wait until they read something in the newspaper before they act on it. They are continually in contact with the companies in their portfolio and they know what direction the company is headed in long before the general public does. This "news" was already built into the price of the stock.

RHEL should have a free version, Should Axe Fedora

[rainhill]

RHEL should have a free version. And what about CentOS? you might say, I am sure RedHat can get (needs and deserves) a better karma, and a better name recognition by distributing RHEL for free, instead of CentOS doing that for them.

I would like to see that Fedora is axed or merged back into RedHat EL, rename it something like RedHat EL Beta or RHEL Express or.., at least it will give new users (kids that are being attracted to Ubuntu) a name recognition right away.

Currently it's confusing, when people speak about Fedora they rarely (if ever) mention RedHat, the next guy who hears Fedora conversation for the 1st time would think of it as just another distro, and would go with distros which currently has more buzz. and that NOT good for Redhat.

Re:Enterprise Operating Systems

[killjoe]

Isn't that pretty much in line with windows support? In fact it probably costs less then windows 2003 server and support by a wide margin.

Re:RHEL should have a free version, Should Axe Fed

[mindstrm]

Why should it have a free version? RedHat decided NOT to do this anymore; they are protecting their trademark.

Because of the GPL (and what they provide to the community goes well beyond what the GPL requires), CentOS is made possible.

The effect you are describing (people thinking RedHat is somehow differnet than fedora) is *exactly* what RedHat Inc. wants.