Except for Cisco, which has a red hat to lock users

At the RedHat 2010 Summit in Boston on Wednesday, executive vice president of RedHat and product and technology President Paul Cormier gave an important speech, and he was quite vocal about Oracle's strategy to provide full-stack products, the company's full-stack product line includes the hardware devices of Sun Microsystems, which was recently acquired. Cormier said that Oracle's strategy was to restore the practices of the 1980s s, and its route was out of date. In that age, vendors were indifferent to providing users with hardware, operating systems, middleware, and applications that could not be used collaboratively.

At the RedHat 2010 Summit in Boston on Wednesday, executive vice president of RedHat and product and technology President Paul Cormier gave an important speech, and he was quite vocal about Oracle's strategy to provide full-stack products, the company's full-stack product line includes the hardware devices of Sun Microsystems, which was recently acquired.

Cormier said that Oracle's strategy was to restore the practices of the 1980s s, and its route was out of date. In that age, the vendor left users unconcerned about hardware, operating systems, middleware, and applications that cannot be used collaboratively, and tried to lock users. Of course, the entire history of RedHat is about openness, cross-platform support, and customer selection, and they have always hated the customer sales anti-lock mode bound to a single vendor.

But what's strange is that, next, Cormier introduced Ed Bugnion, vice president and chief technology officer of Cisco's service and virtualization access department. Bugnion spent 30 minutes describing the value of Cisco's Unified Computing System (UCS), which includes Cisco hardware and network devices and is frequently complained about locking users.

From Redhat's advocacy of openness to Cisco's sale of Systems with user locks, this kind of comment is ironic. Someone even spelled the hypocritical R-E-D-H-A-T.

Many attendees stood up and left the venue. A non-name-based participant said that if he had known this, he would not attend the Red Hat summit, so that he could avoid selling the entire Cisco product. The summit has changed from a traditional user-centered presentation to a meeting that listens to vendor bias.

Another participant, Linux server administrator Paul Hall, said, "I sat down and endured the impact of my brain. I felt like there were too many sales rhetoric and there was no technical content ."

Of course, RedHat needs to satisfy its partners and let them do their own thing. This is a good business consciousness. However, open-source users expect Linux and RedHat to protect them from commercialization. However, it is clear that you have not escaped it.