Recently, Sun and Microsoft will use the same strategy to attack the common enemy --red Hat.
President Jonatans Schwatz launched a counterattack against Linux Avengers Red Hat. His counterattacks include providing substantially discounts on the Solaris 10 UNIX operating system upgrade software that will be launched later this year, and any user based on Sun discount Sun's AMD Opteron server, Sun will repurchase these users. Xeon chip server.
Schwarz's goal is to compete for many Wall Street users using Red Hat Linux. The same strategy taken by Microsoft with its previous competitors, SUN is directly challenged by the leading Linux manufacturer Red Hat in terms of price and user support. Sun and Microsoft lose to Red Hat in terms of market share of new server sales. Shuvals issued a speech at a meeting in Wall Street last week, criticized the cost of Red Hat software subscriptions and technical support. Schwarz said that Sun will launch a global Unix / Linux Technical Support Center with 24 hours a day for users 24 hours a day.
At the same time, Martin Taylor, General Manager of Microsoft Platform Strategy, said last week, he will initiate an attack to Red Hat, Novell, IBM, and other commercial sales Linux manufacturers. He said that Microsoft provides Red Hat more favorable software with total cost, better technical support and except for legal proceedings. Taylor added that the price set by Red Hat is higher than Microsoft.
A Microsoft solution provider said he assesss the cost of commercial Linux, but he is worried about Linux users need to deal with a number of vendors and have lack of integration and technical support. It is hard to say that Microsoft has advantages than Linux only uses simple devices such as files and print sharing. However, when you increase other new features and benefits, you can't perform.
Red Hat CEO Matthew Szulik said that Sun and Microsoft are a successful growth of the company. He said that our agency's strong implementation capacity has caused our competitors' embarrassment. In the past two quarters, Red Hat added 240,000 software subscription users. The future of the entire Linux industry is bright. We hope that our competitors have improved our attention.
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