Red Hat dismisses Microsoft as HPC competition

LINUX OUTFIT Red Hat has written off Microsoft's entry into its clustering computer market, claiming the Vole is too unpopular to rank as competition.

Shane Owenby, Red Hat's regional manager for Southeast Asia told ZDNET Asia that Microsoft had made no friends among clustering jet-set and Windows was never seen in all the fashionable clustering parties.

This was because boffins use Linux, since source codes are readily available for them to play around with. Microsoft doesn't like you doing that with Windows.

Microsoft announced on Friday that it has completed the codes for its Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003 targeting high-performance computing and the kit will ship in August.

Scott Crenshaw, general manager of enterprise Linux platform at Red Hat, also dismissed Microsoft's entry into cluster computing. He said that Vole was playing catch-up. Linux is associated with high-performance computing, but Windows has never achieved that on a large scale.

There is an element of, "they would say that wouldn't they?" to the comments. However we have recorded them in case they become famous last words alongside "Internet Explorer will never catch on", "Nick Farrell is wrong. IBM will never abandon OS2/2" and "Don't be stupid they couldn't hit an elephant at that range". µ

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