rPath on Red Hat's appliance strategy: "Some assembly required"

Posted by Sander_Marechal on Nov 10, 2007 11:58 AM EDT
CNET Blogs; By Matt Asay
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It's not surprising that Billy Marshall, former Red Hatter and current CEO of rPath, would be dismissive of Red Hat's new appliance operating system, given that he will be competing with it. But what I did find surprising is how dead-on his assessment is of enterprise software. We talk about certification a lot (i.e., "Yes, we are certified to run on SQL Server"). The customer takes this to mean, "It will work well with SQL Server." But this isn't always the case. In fact, as Billy points out, it is often not the case:

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