Although VMware and Red Hat might have seemed to be best buddies at last week’s LinuxCon, this week it’s become obvious that Red Hat is locked and loaded and has VMware in its sites. During a week when the suits at the virtualization company would doubtlessly like attention focused on Las Vegas and its VMWorld 2016 users’ conference, Red Hat has been stealing the headlines on just about every major tech site with news of its own virtualization products.
The attention centers on RHV (for Red Hat Virtualization) 4.0, which was released on August 24, the last day of LinuxCon. This timing gives the open source company something of a PR one-two punch. It made news with the dyed-in-the-wool open source crowd at LinuxCon, and is now stealing VMware’s thunder, not only by announcing a new competitive product but by making it perfectly clear that it’s targeting VMware users.