Right now, Red Hat (Nasdaq: RHAT) Latest News about Red Hat is the de facto standard among Linux distributions. Sure, if you implement a solution from the ground up or administer a single server Latest News about Servers, you can choose any distro you like. But if you want to run Oracle (Nasdaq: ORCL) Latest News about Oracle or most other commercial software, it's much easier to go with Red Hat.
A few trailing Linux companies recently banded together to create a competing distribution called UnitedLinux. SuSE Latest News about SuSE, TurboLinux, Conectiva and The SCO Group hope their effort will boost their respective market shares by providing a single development target. Will they succeed? And can UnitedLinux achieve acceptance in areas where Linux has not yet been adopted, rather than cannibalizing the existing Linux market?
