Tenth Anniversary of Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Ten years ago, Red Hat Enterprise Linux was released, marking the official entry of Linux into enterprise applications. Today, ten years later, when many companies are enjoying the benefits of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, it is hard to imagine how corporate IT would be without Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

On the occasion of the 10th anniversary of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, let's review the profound impact of Red Hat Enterprise Linux on the operating system industry and the entire IT industry.

Enterprise IT "Redemption"

At the end of the 20th century, Unix occupied half of the enterprise operating system market. However, due to the natural closedness of the Unix operating system, enterprises and suppliers form a tightly coupled relationship. From the underlying hardware to the upper-layer applications, enterprises must have the same Unix environment “from the end”, which is for enterprises. Words, not a good news, the excessive dependence on a certain manufacturer makes the enterprise face many difficulties such as cost and business expansion.

Although Linux has been in existence for 10 years, there is still a gap between it and UNIX in terms of system reliability and stability. There is no special organization to provide enterprise applications. The services required, and the lack of Linux-based enterprise applications, make Linux difficult to perform in the enterprise market.

In 2001, Red Hat began to brew an enterprise-class operating system "Redemption" & mdash; — Red Hat Enterprise Linux, in an attempt to promote the development of Linux in the enterprise market, and ultimately enterprise-level The user is free from the binding of Unix. Although there were still many challenges in launching the commercial version of enterprise Linux at the time, Red Hat lived up to expectations and launched Red Hat Enterprise Linux in 2002, which also marked the official entry of Linux into enterprise applications. After that, Red Hat continued to improve Linux reliability, and combined with ISV to develop a large number of enterprise-level applications based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux, while also providing users with Linux training, Linux-related consulting services, etc., all of which started Linux into the enterprise market. It has greatly promoted the role.

In 2010, Gartner reported that Linux has become the fastest growing operating system on the market, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux has become the first choice for Linux users.

Breaking the monopoly sales model ——subscription model

Bob ·, one of the founders of Red Hat; Bob Young once said: "If you use a monopolist Under the rules, it is difficult for you to compete with the monopolist. The monopolist controls resources, distribution channels and research and development resources, which is always very powerful. To defeat the monopolist, you must change the rules and make it more beneficial to you. ”

In the traditional "license license" software sales model, users often find that spending a lot of money but buying a bunch of features that will never be used, and endless update and maintenance The cost is also very uncomfortable for many users.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux uses a new software sales model —— Subscription, which allows users to pay for services or product usage on a monthly or yearly basis. Subscriptions mean that users can continue to reap the rewards of their investments without having to consider the extra cost of a version upgrade. Red Hat will be available to customers at the first time of the birth of new technology, and can provide unlimited support without additional charges, users can also feedback usage information to Red Hat.

Unified Enterprise IT Infrastructure —— Linux can also be used on mainframes and minicomputers

With the increasing reliability of Linux, some mainframe and minicomputer governments and Enterprise users want to achieve greater scalability and manageability through Linux. Red Hat offers Red Hat Enterprise Linux versions that run on minicomputers and mainframes to help users build a unified, manageable, and scalable IT infrastructure.

This means that users of mainframes and minicomputers do not need very professional Unix administrators to complete system management and operation and maintenance. At the same time, the popularity of Linux allows governments and enterprises to choose more. Linux-based applications. Most importantly, the scalability of the IT infrastructure has also increased significantly.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux: The Future of Virtualization and Cloud Computing

Virtualization and cloud computing have become an irreversible trend in enterprise IT development. In the era of cloud computing, corporate CIOs are most concerned about How to build a flexible and scalable IT infrastructure through cloud computing and virtualization? How to improve the input and output of enterprise IT? How to avoid single vendor lock-in? … …

Red Hat Enterprise Linux comes from open source The community, which realizes the openness that enterprises need, its subscription-based sales model allows companies to pay on demand. At the same time, Red Hat Enterprise Linux also provides an embedded KVM virtualization solution, which brings great convenience to the construction of enterprise cloud platform. It's worth noting that, based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat also introduced cloud computing products and services that provide enterprises with the ability to plan, build, and manage infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) and platform-as-a-service (PaaS) private clouds and A comprehensive solution for the public cloud. These have made Red Hat Enterprise Linux the first choice for enterprise cloud infrastructure.

From the stage of corporate IT "redemption", to creating a new subscription model … … In the future, what kind of surprise will Red Hat Enterprise Linux bring to enterprise IT in the cloud era? Let us wait and see !