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DEFINITION

Red Hat Enterprise Linux

(RHEL)
By Andrew Zola

What is Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)?

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is an enterprise Linux operating system (OS)
developed by Red Hat for the business market. RHEL, formerly known as Red Hat
Linux Advanced Server, is certified with thousands of vendors and across hundreds
of clouds.

RHEL provides users with a reliable, consistent foundation across environments. It

is equipped with all the necessary tools to rapidly deliver application services and
workloads. RHEL is based on a free, open source model like all Linux distributions.

In the past, RHEL was available at no cost, and users only had to pay for support.
However, Red Hat has since created two versions of RHEL. One is a version with
less frequent version releases. The other is Fedora, developed by the Fedora
Project. It undergoes more frequent version releases and offers the latest available
technologies.

A large community of developers actively contributes to Fedora. Red Hat takes

features the Fedora Project develops and incorporates them into RHEL.

Although Red Hat makes its source code available for download, verbatim copying
of the distribution is forbidden. However, users can view the source code and
customize it as needed. The RHEL OS supports a range of workloads in physical,
virtual and cloud environments. RHEL editions are available for servers, mainframe,
SAP applications, desktops and OpenStack.

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Comparison Buyer's Guide
Executive Summary
Updated on Mar 14, 2022

We performed a comparison between Red Hat Enterpris Server

based on our users’ reviews in four categories. A collected data, you
can find our conclusion below.
• Ease of Deployment: Users of Red Hat Enterprise Linux feel
that deploying it is relatively easy and straightforward. Reviewers
write that Red Hat Enterprise Linux has features that speed up
the ability of users to deploy it. Windows Server is viewed
similarly.

Features: Red Hat Enterprise Linux users find it to be stable and

point out that it has many valuable features, including its robust
integration capabilities and its powerful security software.
However, reviewers say that it could be much more user-friendly.

Users of Windows Server 2016 feel that it is a very user-

friendly solution. Furthermore, they note that its active directory
feature is highly valuable. They also note that it is highly scalable.
However, many users feel that its security capabilities could be
greatly improved. They also feel that the graphical interface could
be better.

• Pricing: Users of both solutions note that they are expensive to

use. However, users also note that a free version of Red Hat
Enterprise Linux does exist.

• Service and Support: Users of both solutions note that, for the
most part, they are supported by excellent technological support
teams.

Comparison of Results: Based on the parameters we compared, Red Hat Enterprise Linux seems to be a
slightly superior solution. All other things being more or less equal, our reviewers found Windows Server
2016 rather expensive to purchase and not as secure as it should be.

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Red Hat: Leading the enterprise Linux server

market
DECEMBER 5, 2019THE RED HAT ENTERPRISE LINUX TEAM

Today, we’re pleased to continue this leadership, with a new report from IDC that
includes data showing that Red Hat as the leading choice for paid Linux in the
worldwide server operating environment market as well as a powerful player in
server operating systems at-large.

According to the report, “Worldwide Server Operating Environments Market Shares,

2018: Overall Market Growth Accelerates:”
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 Red Hat Enterprise Linux subscriptions grew by more than 14% in 2018,
representing more than 33% of the total paid enterprise operating system
environments. This ties in with Red Hat-sponsored research from IDC that
shows how Red Hat Enterprise Linux touches more than $10 trillion of the
global business economy.

• Paid Linux subscriptions made up more than 51% of worldwide commercial

server operating system deployments in 2018.
• All Linux, paid and non-paid, continued to dominate enterprise server
deployments.\
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