Red Hat Bets Big On Cloud Target

eldavojohn writes "Red Hat's CEO prophetically saith 'The clouds will all run Linux' in a brief interview before the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo. Here's the skinny: Red Hat management tools take a back seat to grid computing goals, high switching costs are the trick to surviving slow periods, Microsoft's interoperability tools are vaporware, they're striving to catch up to VMWare, Ubuntu is not the competition, JBoss is growing twice as fast as RHEL and Amazon pays the fee while Google wears its own Red Hat for free."

Where's the money?

[dlgeek]

If you RTFA, Red Hat is planning on getting it's revenue from selling support. I'm not sure I see this happening. If you're running a cloud service, you're going to have a LOT of machines and you're going to need enough custom support and custom software that you're probably going to have in-house support. If you have in-house support, you're probably not paying for the Red Hat support, so how do the expect to make revenue?

Ultimate Pronouncement

[houstonbofh]

This is perfect. For years people have said "____ will be Linux." But "The Could" has almost as little meaning as "_____" so it gives specificity without having to be specific!

I actually use, and like Linux, but I hate marketing speak.

The height of irresponsibility

[tjstork]

Cloud computing and web centric computing is the height of all irresponsibility within the IT field. Network centric computing utterly depends on security and that means encryption. Defeating encryption depends on solving combinatorially difficult problems and it is still theoretically possible that this may well prove to be the case. At any given point in time, we may well wake up in a world where someone has proven P=NP and within a few short weeks from that point we would see utilities to easily forge SSL certificates, code signing, PGP, AES and pretty much every crypto system and identity assurance system out there. The resulting calamity would be so immense, that, it begs to wonder, why are we pushing technologies when we do not know if they will actually work?

Shhh!

[Anonymous Coward]

Nobody tell him about Joyent's massive OpenSolaris farm!

Re:The height of irresponsibility

[hansraj]

...that testing for primality is P. As a result factorization is NP because we can check if a given factorization is correct in polynomial time.

Factorization is in NP irrespective of whether primality testing is in P or not. You can check whether a given factorization is correct or not by simply multiplying the claimed factors. The result you cite proves that factorization is in coNP (the complement of NP).

Re:Good typing...

[geekoid]

I thought it was a very clever pun.

Becasue there isn't a real definitions for 'the cloud', but there are a lot of people saying 'it could be this' or ' it could be that'