[KLUG Members] Redhat unveils smaller sibling

[Todd Pillars]

>From Network World http://www.nwfusion.com

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Today's focus:  Red Hat unveils smaller sibling

By Phil Hochmuth

Red Hat last week introduced updates to its enterprise server
and workstation operating system products with the release of
Red Hat Enterprise ES and Red Hat Enterprise WS.

Red Hat Enterprise ES is being billed as a smaller sibling to
Red Hat Enterprise AS - formerly called Red Hat Linux Advanced
Server. The ES product is aimed at departmental Linux server
jobs, such as file, print and e-mail serving. The server is also
suitable for deploying as a node in a high-performance computing
cluster for scientific research applications.

Since the product is targeted at smaller servers, the software
does not support larger hardware configurations - more than two
X86-based CPUs and 4G bytes of memory. Also, high availability
(HA) configurations are not available on the platform (Red Hat
Enterprise AS supports HA more CPUs and memory)

The new server product includes a one-year subscription to Red
Hat Network, a service for receiving automated patch updates and
security notifications. The server also comes with
business-hours telephone support.

The new WS product is targeted as a high-performance workstation
operating system for such end users as applications developers,
graphics professionals or CAD engineers. The WS software is
similar to the ES server product, but does not include features
such as DNS or DHCP servers. Red Hat Enterprise WS can run on
either dual-X86 or Itanium 2 processors. The workstation
software comes with the same support and Red Hat Network
offering as the server application.

Red Hat Enterprise ES and Red Hat Enterprise WS are available
now starting at $800 for the server platform and $300 for the
workstation software.

Find out more about Red Hat's enterprise offerings:
http://www.redhat.com/software/rhel/

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Pricey!

Todd