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Open source needs successful champions

The open-source industry needs profitable champions to demonstrate success and attract funding and participation in open source, according to Red Hat's CEO. The open-source industry needs profitable champions to demonstrate success and attract funding and participation in open source, according to the chief executive of Red Hat. ...

Tags: Red Hat Inc., Champion, open source, Red Hat, Jim Whitehurst, Victoria Ho ZDNet Asia

News items 2009-11-05

Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization for Servers

RHEL is the standard of Linux distro'sRHEL is the defacto standard for the Enterprise and small business.Secure, Reliable and Robust the ultimate server OS.And this transcends to virtualization how?MS IS the defacto standard. Yet Hyper-V has a long long way to go.

Tags: Operating systems, cloud computing, Servers, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Utility computing, Storage management, defacto, virtualization, server, Red Hat Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-11-05

Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization for Servers

Red Hat is attempting to use KVM as a weapon to defeat VMware, Microsoft, Citrix, Oracle and the like. Organizations will need proof that it is better. by Dan Kusnetzky

Tags: Red Hat Inc., Server, Open Source, Virtualization, Hardware, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2009-11-05

Oracle's Virtualization Story

Kool-aid?Looks like someone has been drinking the kool-aid. Let's be clear, Oracle's distro is a rip-off of RedHat's, albeit behind a year or so, plus patches to help their RDBMS that may not be accepted in the upstream projects. Don't let Oracle fool you, the core engineers are...

Tags: virtualization, Oracle Corp., open source

Discussion threads 2009-11-02

Give Jim Whitehurst his due and proper

Soon Red Hat will surpass M$ in market sharePeople are tired of paying M$ tax and are switching to the better alternative: Red Hat.I think that is agressive statement that is not likeyI agree with you partly. Some people are dissassified with paying the Microsoft price. However like apple people...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, UNIX, Operating systems, Linux, Red Hat Inc., Microsoft Corp., server

Discussion threads 2009-10-23

Red Hat: Quiet winner amid Sun's server apocalypse?

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Tags: Red Hat Inc., Sun Microsystems Inc., server

Discussion threads 2009-10-13

Red Hat, Microsoft deliver on virtualization interop promises

I guess RMS will add redhat to his hit listntIs the Sky Falling...To see these do anything together is enough to make me look up..

Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), virtualization, Red Hat Inc., Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-10-07

Red Hat, Microsoft deliver on virtualization interop promises

It's more than notable that Red Hat and Microsoft have delivered on some aspects of their cross certification virtualization promises. Here's what was delivered today (verbatim, from the Red Hat press release), following pledges of both companies last February: Validation of Red Hat Enterprise...

Tags: Virtualization, Microsoft Windows Server, Red Hat Inc., Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Open Source, Linux, Servers, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Hardware, Paula Rooney

Blog posts 2009-10-07

Red Hat offers Supremes an audacious brief

Here's for hoping![i]Given history both arguments make sense. Given politics neither is likely to be accepted any time soon.[/i]Come on, Dana. Surely you have hopes, don't you?All the big players are in the software patent game only for defensive purposes. The only entities who are in it offensively are the...

Tags: audacious brief, Supreme, Red Hat Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-10-06

Red Hat offers Supremes an audacious brief

Because the boundaries of software patents are exceedingly vague and the numbers of issued software patents is now enormous, it is virtually impossible to rule out the possibility that a new software product may arguably infringe some patent. by Dana Blankenhorn

Tags: Software, Red Hat Inc., Software Patent, Tools & Techniques, Management, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2009-10-06

Linux as Wintel parasite

You have some questionable ideas.If Microsoft hadn't happened, there still would have been the PC, there still would have been GUIs perhaps a more expensive IBM monopoly one, and there still would have been the opportunity for anyone such as Linus to write a free alternative.I think to even use...

Tags: UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, Wintel, Linux, interrupt, parasite, Sun Microsystems Inc., IBM Corp., hardware, Red Hat Inc., Sun Solaris

Discussion threads 2009-09-26

News to know: Verizon's Pre; Tornado; IDF; iPhone MMS; RedHat; Gmail outage

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Sam Diaz: Report: Verizon says no to Palm Pre Andrew Mager: Tornado: The real-time web server from...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Gmail, Larry Dignan, MMS, Red Hat Inc., Verizon Communications Inc., Microsoft Corp., Outage, Sam Diaz, Intel Corp., E-mail Providers, Text Messaging/SMS/MMS, Smart Phones, Cloud Computing, Open Source, Internet, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Online Communications

Blog posts 2009-09-25

Red Hat gains operating system share at Sun's expense

Unix/Linux distro is secureUnix/Linux distro's are secure and they were built for networking period.Windows was built for single user and no networking.Linux winswindoze loses!What will Larry Ellison do?Purchasing Sun was just about as smart as Borland betting on Pascal Delphi.RE: Red Hat gains operating system share at Sun's expenseAny uncertainty...

Tags: Sun Solaris, Operating systems, Processors, OPEN SOURCE, UNIX, Sun Microsystems Inc., Red Hat Inc., Sun Sparc, Intel x86, operating system

Discussion threads 2009-09-24

Red Hat CEO vs. Torvalds: More Linux features don't equate to bloat

Linux distro appliances are the futureCompanies are wising up and getting away from MS 20G worm/virus operating systems and going to Linux distro driven appliances.It is the future with appliances no one needs a Windows OS with Office for someone to open a (.doc) to edit it is a security...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, COMPANIES, Red Hat Inc., Linux, desktop, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2009-09-24

Red Hat CEO vs. Torvalds: More Linux features don't equate to bloat

Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst disagreed with Linus Torvalds' contention that Linux has become bloated. Whitehurst said that Linux is growing and becoming more full-featured. The bloat will come when features are added that no one wants. by Larry Dignan

Tags: Red Hat Inc., CEO, Linux, Open Source, UNIX, Operating Systems, Software, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-09-24

Red Hat gains operating system share at Sun's expense

Red Hat's fiscal second quarter results were solid across the board as the company continues to poach operating system market share even though server sales are weak. Simply put, you can't extrapolate Red Hat's results to other enterprise software vendors. Red Hat's continued growth is at the...

Tags: Red Hat Inc., Operating System, Sun Microsystems Inc., Open Source, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-09-24

IBM, Canonical partner to target Africa netbook market; Upend Microsoft

Their timing is quite goodRight at this moment, the Internet infrastructure in Central Africa is being upgraded with new underwater fiber optic cable links that will ultimately bring Africa's broadband capacity on par with the rest of the world by late 2010. Their timing couldn't be better.Why not red hat...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, UNIX, IBM Corp., Microsoft Corp., Divide-and-conquer, netbook, Language Support, Debian, Canonical, Red Hat Inc., Linux, Ubuntu

Discussion threads 2009-09-23

Red Hat: Quiet winner amid Sun's server apocalypse?

Oracle has thrown down the hardware gauntlet against IBM to stop the bleeding at soon-to-be-acquired Sun Microsystems, but Red Hat may be among the big winners amid the server wars. by Larry Dignan

Tags: Red Hat Inc., Sun Microsystems Inc., Open Source, Servers, Hardware, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-09-11

VMFS-3, How Do I Despise Thee

Sounds bad... How about Red Hat's new stuff?A nasty experience... Have a glass of fine cognac to recover. No ice (the horror!), no mixing barbaric, at the perfect temperature of 18 degrees Celsius. Cheers. :-)How about Red Hat's new virtualization stuff in RHEL 5.4? Is that a better alternative?http://blogs.zdnet.com/virtualization/?p=1234Salut, Pjotr.RE:...

Tags: Virtualization, OPEN SOURCE, Servers, UNIX, Operating systems, KVM, VMFS-3, vSphere, VMware Inc., RHEL 5.4, Red Hat Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-09-04

VMworld, Red Hat Summit news takes cloud computing beyond the hype curve

Small Biz First in The CloudThe need for companies to cut costs and increase productivity means one thing for Technology professionals, Cloud computing. Small and midsize businesses will be the first to integrate cloud-based services giving companies the flexibility to simply pay a higher monthly fee as they grow or...

Tags: Virtualization, cloud computing, Red Hat Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-09-04