Sun joins hands with Microsoft to launch an attack on Red Hat, the Linux leader

Recently, sun and Microsoft will use the same policy to attack Red Hat, a common enemy.

President Jonathan schwaz has launched a counterattack against the Linux Avengers red hat. His counterattack measures include a substantial discount on the Solaris 10 Unix OS upgrade software that will be launched later this year, sun will also repurchase Xeon chip-based ECs instances for any users who purchase Sun's amd opteron server with discounts on sun.

The goal of shuwaz is to compete for many Wall Street users who use Red Hat Linux. Similar to the strategy adopted by Microsoft, the former competitor, sun directly challenges red hat, a leading Linux vendor in terms of price and user support. Sun and Microsoft both lost to Red Hat in terms of market share of new server sales. In a speech at a Wall Street meeting last week, schwtz criticized the costs of Red Hat Software Subscription and technical support. Sun will launch a global Unix/Linux Technical Support Center to solve technical problems for users 24 hours a day seven days a week, said schwtz.

At the same time, Microsoft's platform strategy general manager Martin Taylor said last week that he would launch attacks to Red Hat, Novell, IBM and other vendors selling Linux commercially. He said Microsoft provides Red Hat software with a higher cost, better technical support, and free from legal litigation threats. Taylor added that Red Hat's pricing is higher than Microsoft's.

A Microsoft solution provider said he evaluated the cost of commercial Linux, but he was worried that Linux users needed to deal with a number of vendors and lack of integration and technical support. If Linux users only use simple devices such as file and print sharing, it is hard to say that Microsoft has advantages over Linux. However, when you add other new features and benefits, you cannot compare them.

Matthew szulik, CEO of Red Hat, said Sun and Microsoft were jealous of the company's successful growth. He said that our strong execution capabilities have aroused the jealousy of our competitors. In the past two quarters, Red Hat has added 0.24 million software subscribers. The future of the Linux Industry is bright. We hope our competitors will pay more attention to us.

From: blog China