Dell investing in Red Hat

Heather said: "Caught this on the Yahoo news. Dell is investing 99.5 million in Red Hat. This is the biggest Linux OS distributor. If you'd like to read more, it can be found [URL=http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/dell_red_hat]here[/URL] I thought this was an interesting move. Watch out Microsoft?"

chahinemm said: "[QUOTE=Hathor] Watch out Microsoft?[/QUOTE] I agree actually red hat and linux has been munching microsofts market share slowly and as u will see in any industry leader at any point they will face competition the only thing is how microsoft will react to counter that customer change toward linux. having used both OS i can tell u that linux crashed on me 1ce maybe in 4 month and microsoft... :eek: don't even have enough fingers to count it... :D cost is cheaper... always a major factor as u can get linux for free... the battle of the titans has begun. chahine"

HappyHarry said: "Red Hat is getting more stable. The product is very good for small business servers."

Heather said: "I know what your saying. I switched over a while ago, and my hard drive doesn't spin at all. With Windows, it used to practically "buzz""

HappyHarry said: "Where would the world be without Open Source?"

Heather said: "Most would be paying high dollar licensing fees to Micosoft. :("

lil dickie said: "Red Hat still has a very small percentage of the market share."