Here is the actual article title:
CIQ, Oracle and SUSE Create Open Enterprise Linux Association for a Collaborative and Open Future
- New trade association brings together open source Enterprise Linux community
- It will provide an open process to access source code that organizations can use to build distributions compatible with RHEL
I’ve worked with SuSE on a collaborative enterprise linux before.
It was an unmitigated nightmare, and I’m convinced they killed Conectiva and Turbo.
This is one of those situations where the solution is so obvious I kind of hate that I didn’t get it beforehand. We have open standards for everything so it makes sense to build an open standard for “Linux in Business”.
They are not creating an “open standard” because the standard is “RHEL compatible”. Do you consider RHEL an open standard?
If they were making an open standard, this would be great. That is not what they are doing. What they are doing is collaborating on the task of exactly duplicating whatever RHEL is doing.
On the headline “Red Hat is going to have a tough time”.
So, at the end of the day,Red Hat will have the exact same competitors they had before: Oracle, Rocky, and Liberty Linux.
Only two things have changed:
1 - All of these competitors have come out to make a big deal to reenforce that the best and most important enterprise Linux is RHEL. They have declared that the best they can do is copy Red Hat even when that becomes less convenient
2 - That the offerings from these companies may not “really” be identical to RHEL anymore because Red Hat no longer supplies them directly
So, the same competitors but not as good as before as measured against their self-declared gold standard ( RHEL ).
Why is Red Hat going to have a tough time?
Because Redhat has IBM hands shoved up through it’s ass upto it’s brains so it’s days are numbered.
Don’t underestimate IBM honchos to fuck up a good thing. Recently heard Redhat dropping dev support for a bunch of packages in fedora or something.
The moment someone fucks up… open source always brings alternatives. See: open office vs. Libreoffice… the bunch of firefox derivatives.
