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> but how will it fare against rival products from Novell, Sun Microsystems, and Mandrakesoft?

RHEL 4 :
- SeLinux (big piece)
- ext3 reservation
- ext3 resize online
- Gnome 2.8
- KDE 3.3
- hal/G-V-M
- cups via dbus
- GFS

Solaris/Novell/Mandrake does not provides these features.

> it's more than three times the price of the comparably featured Mandrakelinux Corporate Server 3.0.

Mandrakelinux CS : 0 (nada) certification.
RHEL : many (Oracle, Dell, IBM,<nobr> <wbr></nobr>...).

http://store.mandrakesoft.com/product_info.php?pr<nobr>o<wbr></nobr> ducts_id=195
Number of CD for Mdk CS : 2 (!)

RHEL : 4 (binary) + 4 (source) + 1 ("extra")

Mandrake CS available for : x86 x86_64
RHEL : x86 x86_64 ia64 ppc s390 s390x

Price Mandrake :
329 or 729 € / year (subscription like RHEL)

Price RHEL :
from 70 to 18 000 $ / year (but RHEL ws = 179, ES = 349).

Where you see it's "more than three times the price" of Mdk CS ?

> But Red Hat's most dangerous competition may not be from outside companies, but from its own community distribution.

"Funny".
You do not understand what Fedora is nor RHEL :
http://fedora.redhat.com/about/rhel.html

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