Redhat have focused on integrating the Xen virtualization hypervisor, although it describes the initial release as a technology preview and promises to provide full production tools in the 5.1 update. Part of this will be waiting for Xen's management API to settle as it's currently only included in the 3.04 Xen release (Redhat includes 3.03) and won't be settled until 3.05.
One really interesting aspect of the release is Redhat's new support package called the "co-operative resolution center". This allows enterprise customers to buy a complete support package where Redhat will support both the OS and the applications running on it.
As Redhat explain: "We will now fix a customer problem regardless of which vendor is the root cause," ... "We'll call the other vendors to help deliver a solution. It helps solve the problem where, for example, you're running Oracle and Veritas on RHEL and a the problem arises to do with patch levels and application interaction. We'll bake it into our larger scale service package, mainly for big enterprises. Thousands will want to take advantage of this."
If it prevents the usual back and forth blame game between vendors it could solve a whole lot of headaches for legal IT shops.
More here: http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,129850-c,redhat/article.html
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