“I shouldn’t be forced to pay on a per-CPU licence – that really killed my business model. – Rakuten Mobile CEO Tareq Amin
https://www.telecomtv.com/content/digital-platforms-services/rakuten-dumps-red-hat-turns-to-true-open-source-linux-os-45803/
Started by original founder of CentOS, Greg Kurter when Redhat decided to discontinue Centos development beyond 2020, Rocky Linux OS has come to a long distance.
What is Rocky Linux OS?
Rocky Linux is a Linux distribution developed by Rocky Enterprise Software Foundation. It is intended to be a downstream, complete binary-compatible release using the Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) operating system source code.[1] The project’s aim is to provide a community-supported, production-grade enterprise operating system. Rocky Linux, along with Red Hat Enterprise Linux and SUSE Linux Enterprise, has become popular for enterprise operating system use.
Read more about Rocky Linux here,
“We’ve successfully validated Rocky Linux with our radio software in the Rakuten Mobile network in Japan. The open source performance is clearly at parity with commercial alternatives available in the market today,” says Ryota Mibu, Cloud Platform Division Manager, Rakuten Mobile
Rakuten Portable has managed a significant disaster for Red Hat by choosing to eliminate the seller’s product from its versatile organization stage in Japan following some item backing and business relationship choices that, as per Rakuten Versatile President Tareq Amin (presented above), “killed my business model”.
Conversing with columnists and examiners on the Fyuz occasion in Madrid, Amin gave refreshes on various advancements connected with the Open RAN area, Rakuten Versatile, and the administrator’s organization programming branch-off Rakuten Orchestra, which is selling applications, network capabilities, and frameworks reconciliation and backing administrations to different administrators all over the planet.
After rigorous testing of Rocky Linux in the last 13-month program, Rakuten has already decided on 12-month migration program to migrate to RockyLinux OS in Japan.
This will not affect Red Hat but could be a milestone for the Opensource software community.