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Posted by lubow on August 27, 2008, 9:29 pm
The computer industry press, at least the part of the fourth estate that's
friendly to free/open software, is reporting that Obama's website is LAMP
(Linux-Apache-MySQL-PHP) powered while McCain is in bed with MSFT.
Just be prepared to see some strange things in the GOP website over the next few
weeks. MSFT based webservers are not noted for their security features.
Also, take a quick look at Yahoo Finance and look at the two year compare of RHT
vs. MSFT. Nothing spectacular on the rate of return for either, but RHT's trend
line is sloping a little to the upper right corner while MSFT is sloping a
little to the lower right corner.
I bot RHT (then it was RHAT) when it went public. About three months later I
took the Red Hat Engineers Course at Red Hat HQ at the Triangle Industrial Park
in Durham. I learned about some subtle differences between Linux and UNIX and
passed the Red Hat Engineers Certification. The best part was having dinner
with Anne, my old flame from my teenage years in Brooklyn, and her family. She
is a big time civil rights attorney down there and her husband heads pediatric
endocrinology at Duke. What really made it nice was that she served the only
edible food I ate in Durham. That's if you count a Blimpie sandwich as edible.
When I got home, I immediately sold all my RHAT stock. The reason was I
believed it would never be able to recruit anyone who is not already in North
Carolina because the food there was so awful. I just could not imagine a
computer geek from San Francisco or Silicon Valley willingly relocating to the
area of the worst food in America.
I made good money on that transaction then and now that Red Hat is firmly
ingrained into many enterprises, I think it has a great future ahead selling the
service and giving away the software (you can get Red Hat software for free).
Its business model is not that much different from Oracle.
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