the problem for redhat :: the opportunity for novell
i was sitting in a team meeting with many of the individuals, who facilitate in one way or another --technical or business-- all the relationships novell has with our technology partners, when someone passed the news that redhat was acquiring jboss. i don't think it made many of us think twice, and it became business as usual. i might be blowing this out of proportion, but this was a significant move for both redhat and novell for the following reasons:
1) redhat has realized that linux revenue and sales has, for the most part, hit its stride in growth--and i will pull the market data for upcoming linux sales--; therefore, realized they need to move up further in the stack to generate street expected revenue. jboss presented the natural progression for their business, and i agree!
2) but on the other hand working for novell this should present a formidable opportunity. i believe novell is building technologies around the solution stack with its significant security and resource management portfolio, and should not feel threatened because it has a near non existent play in middleware, rather, take this opportunity to shore up partnerships that redhat has now chosen to compete with head on; including IBM's Websphere, BEA's Weblogic, Oracle's Fusion and others.
i believe redhat has had such an advantage over novell b/c their linux relationships w/ the previously mentioned companies has helped them seed the market, thus, building greater market share (sam will explain in a later post why market share is so critical when dealing w/ a commodity like linux)and dominated Suse in the market. this is novell's opportunity to take over these relationship, and play hardball with redhat and microsoft.
suring up relationships would include 1) development and support cycles are now Suse first before redhat, 2) YES certify middleware applications on SLES (Suse Linux Enterprise Software), 3) define significant and mutual routes to market w/ SLES as the OS of choice, 4) joint marketing and training programs.
obviously, these are my personal thoughts, and are not the thoughts of my employer. i don't have significant power in my position as an employee to make such relationship or business decisions, but this doesn't lessen how i feel about this opportunity, and hopefully someone will make this happen.
1) redhat has realized that linux revenue and sales has, for the most part, hit its stride in growth--and i will pull the market data for upcoming linux sales--; therefore, realized they need to move up further in the stack to generate street expected revenue. jboss presented the natural progression for their business, and i agree!
2) but on the other hand working for novell this should present a formidable opportunity. i believe novell is building technologies around the solution stack with its significant security and resource management portfolio, and should not feel threatened because it has a near non existent play in middleware, rather, take this opportunity to shore up partnerships that redhat has now chosen to compete with head on; including IBM's Websphere, BEA's Weblogic, Oracle's Fusion and others.
i believe redhat has had such an advantage over novell b/c their linux relationships w/ the previously mentioned companies has helped them seed the market, thus, building greater market share (sam will explain in a later post why market share is so critical when dealing w/ a commodity like linux)and dominated Suse in the market. this is novell's opportunity to take over these relationship, and play hardball with redhat and microsoft.
suring up relationships would include 1) development and support cycles are now Suse first before redhat, 2) YES certify middleware applications on SLES (Suse Linux Enterprise Software), 3) define significant and mutual routes to market w/ SLES as the OS of choice, 4) joint marketing and training programs.
obviously, these are my personal thoughts, and are not the thoughts of my employer. i don't have significant power in my position as an employee to make such relationship or business decisions, but this doesn't lessen how i feel about this opportunity, and hopefully someone will make this happen.
posted by Clint GC at 2:07 PM
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