Red Hat Announces the First Enterprise-Class Linux OS. Red Hat Linux Advanced Server is the new powerful enterprise platform for mission-critical server deployments. Backed by Red Hat Network and Red Hat Professional Services, Red Hat Linux Advanced Server will support high availability workgroups with a serious level of security.
Benefits include:
Performance and Scalability Enhancements.
Clustering.
All this for US$800 per server sounds very cheap – and it supports 8-way SMP too! For comparison, Microsoft is selling this functionality in Windows 2000 Advanced Server for US $3,999. I also noticed Dell, IBM and Compaq are partnering with Red Hat to provide the hardware. Does that leave Sun in the shadows?– John [PHP Everywhere]