Intel and Red Hat

[Toon Moene <toon moene indiv nluug nl>]

Just read this (because I knew it was coming):

<QUOTE>
SAN JOSE, Calif., Sept. 29 /PRNewswire/ -- Today at ISPCON Fall  
'98, Red Hat Software, Inc., a leading distributor of the Linux  
operating system, announced that Intel, Netscape Communications  
Corporation and venture capital firms Greylock and Benchmark  
Partners have taken minority equity positions in the company. Red  
Hat builds, maintains and provides technical support for the Red Hat  
operating system. Linux runs on Intel, Alpha and Sun SPARC  
platforms. Financial terms of the agreement were not disclosed.

Additionally, the firm announced it is establishing an Enterprise  
Computing Division, according to Red Hat president, Robert F. Young.  
The new division will offer enterprise-grade products and services  
to support global, mission-critical applications. "As the growing  
number of users demonstrates, the Linux operating system is ready  
for enterprise-wide applications," Young said. "Red Hat intends to  
further extend its Linux leadership into the enterprise."
</QUOTE>

Good, for a moment I thought we all had to convert to Intel-centric  
hardware, but reading the above closely, it's only about enterprise  
applications (phew!).

That means that for REAL COMPUTING, we can still keep those Alpha's  
hummin'.

Cheers,
Toon.