Comments on: Three Things I Heard from Red Hat Yesterday

By: Red Hat and Microsoft Partner on Virtualization - Storage Informer

Red Hat and Microsoft Partner on Virtualization - Storage Informer — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 05:46:29 +0000

[...] financial analysts together with Red Hat executives to talk about the performance of the company. Stephen O&aposGrady from RedMonk and Gordon Haff from CNet both had nice summaries of the analyst event if you want to learn more [...]

By: Red Hat and Microsoft Partner on Virtualization

Red Hat and Microsoft Partner on Virtualization — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 19:20:50 +0000

[...] financial analysts together with Red Hat executives to talk about the performance of the company. Stephen O’Grady from RedMonk and Gordon Haff from CNet both had nice summaries of the analyst event if you want to learn more [...]

By: Links 8/10/2009: Freedomware Introduced, Firefox 3.6 Soon in Beta | Boycott Novell

Thu, 08 Oct 2009 19:31:38 +0000

[...] Three Things I Heard from Red Hat Yesterday As my analyst colleague Gordon Haff covers, the vendor has finally left the management software sidelines, and appears committed to those capabilities via the RHEV-M component. Meaning that Red Hat offers just about every piece of infrastructure software an enterprise could need…except a database. Pressed on a similar question during the day, Whitehurst assured the audience that Red Hat “was not looking to move into new markets,” with a database the given example. [...]

By: Roy Schestowitz (schestowitz) 's status on Thursday, 08-Oct-09 16:51:25 UTC - Identi.ca

Thu, 08 Oct 2009 16:51:38 +0000

[...] http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2009/10/07/redhat-analyst-day-09/ a few seconds ago from kdemicroblog [...]

By: Gordon Haff

Gordon Haff — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 03:01:20 +0000

Don’t disagree with any of your points. Especially, I find that trying to parse a fine distinction between playing in middleware (and, in fact, that being a core competency) while not playing in databases/persistence to be troubling. Prior to Sun’s MySQL acquisition more amenable to glossing over under the “partnership” umbrella (a la frameworks/languages) perhaps, but not now. The obvious conclusion a year ago would have been a PostgreSQL acquisition although MySQL spinoffs might be alternative possibilitiies to take advantage of MySQL fracturing.