Red Hat hopes its support of multiple open source applications running on Linux will make the platform more attractive to corporate network managers looking for cheaper alternatives to commercial server operating systems.
Android 4.0.3 on a Samsung device is subtly different to Android 4.0.3 on an HTC device, but the main Android platform is stable enough that developers can now drop support for earlier handsets running Donut and Eclair (2.4% of the distribution between them), without worrying about losing significant numbers of potential downloads.
Enterprises running SAP Business Suite can now leverage the on-demand, pay as you go AWS platform to support thousands of concurrent users in production without making costly capital expenditures for their underlying infrastructure.