Red Hat strengthens enterprise-level Linux services by acquiring Netscape Technology

Red Hat announced last week that it would help improve the enterprise-level Linux service capabilities by acquiring the "Wangjing Directory Server" and "Wangjing Certificate Management System" of Netscape for $23 million. House, co-founder and Technical Director of opsware, an IT architecture automation software vendor, said that simply providing Linux is not enough. What customers really need is the application software running on Linux.

Novell's acquisition of SuSE Linux last year increased the vendor's ability to provide enterprise-level Linux and openSource codeThe threshold of application software. Novell is still using its mature directory service and NetWare operating system to accelerate the process of SuSE Linux as an enterprise-level operating system. The "Novell Directory Service" is used in a distributed computing environment to store all information related to Internet, Intranet, and network resources. Novell also announced last week that it will release the "Open Enterprise Server" software in May.

When Red Hat releases the Netscape-based directory service next yearCodeSoftware users can compete with open LDAP and provide more advanced authentication and access control capabilities required by the enterprise environment. Both the "Netscape Directory Server" and open LDAP are based on the standards that house and his colleagues created during their Ph.D. studies at the University of Michigan.

House said that open LDAP is more suitable for a department-level environment, but if you want the Directory Server to cooperate with other directory servers, it is better for the "Web Site Directory Server. He said, obviously, the directory issue is not the only problem that prevents enterprises from using Linux, but Red Hat's initiatives will help accelerate the popularization of Linux in enterprises.