So this was an email that got the other day.
ââ”FYI to the SUSE fan base, vmware and MSFT are trying to further weaken Red Hat more publicly it seems by excluding RHEL as a listed Linux o/s in their cloud offerings. SUSE is always on the support list for vmware and MSFT!â”â with a link to this post http://m.talkincloud.com/iaas/vmware-microsoft-clouds-need-red-hat-linux
Now I donât think I have to say that this came from someone employed at a certain company that starts with an âSâ and ends with an âEâ. I have nothing against the company or this person that sent the email because I understand where that persons motives are. But donât try to sell me on something because two big influential companies are potentially playing a game for children.
If the statements made in the post are true what good does it do for either Microsoft or VMware to not support RHEL if customers want it? Especially for VMware who doesnât truly have an OS of itâs own. Virtualization has become a commodity and âcloudâ, at least infrastructure as a service (IaaS), will soon be as well. If a âproviderâ does not want to âprovideâ what good are they?
Iâd strongly agree to this statement in the post ââ”Either way, partners and customers should object and demand Red Hat Enterprise Linux in both cloudsâ¦â”. So to end this rant Iâm not even sure if the guy read the post because itâs geared more around how not supporting RHEL is more of a bad thing for both these companies IaaS offering.
MSFT are trying to further weaken Red Hat more publicly originally appeared on theHyperadvisor by Antone Heyward
