Sun and Red Hat Enter Into Global Partnership Agreement [LWN.net]

Sun Microsystems, Inc. has announced that it has entered into a global alliance agreement with Red Hat to distribute Red Hat's Enterprise Linux. As part of the agreement, Red Hat will distribute Sun's Java Virtual Machine (JVM) with Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

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Sun and Red Hat Enter Into Global Partnership Agreement

Posted May 20, 2003 0:48 UTC (Tue) by penguinista (guest, #308) [Link]

This is a marriage made in heaven. There will be ample room in the enterprise for both Redhat and Sun. In fact, the two complement each other very well.
From a Unix Sys Admin (and by boss's) point of view, I would like to see Sun and Redhat make their products interchangeable in certain areas. An initiative from Sun to incorporate features of the Linux Standards Base into Solaris would be interesting.[some minor examples, consider using Postfix vs Sendmail, better PAM integration, more up to date versions of mozilla, apache, etc...) And likewise, Redhat can learn some things from Sun as far as enterprise support and management along the lines of sunsolve and vertical support from the hardware on down, etc. This is an alliance I predict that make even more inroads into Government and corporate markets. Another suggestion - use Sun education centers (if they dont already) to train RHCE's and offer incentives to cross-certify on both Redhat and Sun platforms.
PS - As you can tell, this positive news made my day, and totally eclipses the same old FUD news about SCO and Microsoft... yada yada .... who cares!

Sun and Red Hat Enter Into Global Partnership Agreement

Posted May 20, 2003 9:33 UTC (Tue) by jorvalho (guest, #2623) [Link] (2 responses)

It used to be that redhat only shipped free programs with its distribution.

They were an avid supporter of a free software reimplementation of a Java VM.
They wouldn't even ship Open Office because it depended on Java, but was not supported by gcj/gcc.

Now they will ship Sun's JVM...

Is redhat forgetting its commitment to free software?

Sun and Red Hat Enter Into Global Partnership Agreement

Posted May 20, 2003 12:58 UTC (Tue) by smoogen (subscriber, #97) [Link]

It will ship it on its enterprise Linux versus its community Linux. The community Linux is still Free/Open Software, but the enterprise Linux has come bundled with commercial apps from Day 1. They can be removed if you so like also.

Sun and Red Hat Enter Into Global Partnership Agreement

Posted May 20, 2003 19:53 UTC (Tue) by tjc (guest, #137) [Link]

It used to be that redhat only shipped free programs with its distribution.

When was that? They shipped Netscape 4 for the longest time. Not that there's anything wrong with that (other than Netscape 4 really sucked).