Michael Dolan Dot Com

Wednesday, May 9th, 2007

Rant for the day: Red Hat Requires Windows Media Player??? Sun… is Sun…

Why on earth does Red Hat’s investor relations require Windows Media Player to view their corporate analyst day webcast? Can anyone explain the sense in this? I’m using RHEL5 Desktop right now and I can’t watch Red Hat’s own webcast from their website??? Red Hat officially recommends users boot into Windows??

http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?p=irol-eventDetails&c=67156&eventID=1545643

In other news, Red Hat also announced its plans for Red Hat Global Desktop (which apparently does not allow users to view Red Hat’s investor relations webcasts)

This is only slightly less absurd as Sun’s latest campaign that “Solaris is a better Linux than Linux”… no, I think Linux is actually quite fine at being Linux… ;-) I think Sun has split personalities – Sun executives like to point out all the faults they think there are with Linux, sometimes they dress up in Penguins suits, yet they want to be more like Linux… huh?