Table of Contents
- Executive summary
- The Ovum view
- SWOT analysis
- Strengths
- Weaknesses
- Opportunities
- Threats
- Linux automation
- Deployment: certify once, deploy anywhere
- Management: less developed but as important
- Expanded support
- A seven-year support lifecycle
- To ten years
- Extended update support
- Building on Fedora' s shoulders
- A good relationship is key
- Server strategy
- Nothing new apart from packaging
- RHEL AP package
- Boosting revenues by getting customers to move from RHEL standard to AP
- Partly successful
- Less vocal on storage than it used to be
- RHEL MRG package
- On top of RHEL standard or AP
- Realtime kernel for predictability
- Grid to leverage spare compute capacity
- Messaging for high throughput computing
- A challenging mix to market
- The Red Hat HPC Solution package
- HTC versus HPC
- Red Hat HPC Solution: turnkey HPC with third-party technology
- RHEL for HPC Compute Nodes for DIY enthusiasts (and service providers)
- Desktop strategy
- More focus towards virtualisation as well as Windows
- Renewed interest
- From ' playing to the gallery' (2007) to the Qumranet acquisition (2008)
- RHEL Desktop
- Red Hat Global Desktop (RHGD)
- Thin clients
- Virtualised clients
- Entering the nascent, fiercely contested virtual desktop market
- Solid Ice/Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager technology
- User experience, desktop density and price as key differentiators
- Windows support - RHEL Desktop has to catch up
- Expanding beyond Qumranet
- To the cloud
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