No such thing as absolute freedom from vendor lock-in, even in open source, proves Red Hat
May 22, 2014
Grazed from ComputerWeekly. Author: Archana Venkatraman.
OpenStack is a free, open source cloud computing platform giving users freedom from vendor lock-in. When it was alleged that Red Hat won’t support customers who use other versions of OpenStack cloud on its Linux operating systems, its president Paul Cormier passionately shared the company’s vision of open-source but steered clear from stating wholeheartedly that it WILL support its users no matter what version of OpenStack they use.
Any CIO worth his salt will admit that support services can be a deal-breaker when deciding to invest in technology. Red Hat customers opt for the vendor’s commercial version of Linux (RHEL) over free Linux versions because they want to use its support services and make their IT enterprise-class…
This has helped Red Hat build a $10bn empire around Linux and become the most dominant provider of commercial open source platform. So when Cormier says — "Users are free to deploy Red Hat Enterprise Linux with any OpenStack offering, and there is no requirement to use our OpenStack technologies to get a Red Hat Enterprise Linux subscription…
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