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- Frugal Friday: Residential Broadband Woes, Jacko, Windows 7 vs Snow Leopard pricing, Red Hat, Virtualization, Cleversafe
- Frugal Friday: Residential Broadband Woes, Jacko, Windows 7 vs Snow Leopard pricing, Red Hat, Virtualization, CleversafeBroadband DowntimeI was on Cable for Broadband for about 2 years, and suffered intermittent problems for the entire time, and I won't even discuss DSL when I used it.I went to Verizon Broadband...
- Tags: Broadband Internet, Network technology, Pricing, Microsoft Windows, Residential Broadband Woes, Snow Leopard pricing, Jacko, Red Hat virtualization, Cleversafe, Frugal Friday, broadband, Snow Leopard, Microsoft Windows 7, pricing strategy, Red Hat Inc., virtualization
- Discussion threads 2009-06-29
- Red Hat rumors sign of business as usual
- The next recovery will come from the work of companies like Red Hat or, more likely, from Red Hat's customers, than from the financial services industry. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Red Hat Inc., Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2009-06-29
- Frugal Friday: Residential Broadband Woes, Jacko, Windows 7 vs Snow Leopard pricing, Red Hat, Virtualization, Cleversafe
- Frugal Networker Ken Hess and I discuss my 22-hour cable modem downtime ordeal, Micheal Jackson, Windows 7 and Snow Leopard upgrades, Red Hat's stellar business performance and RHEL clones, Virtualization, and talk with Chris Gladwin, CEO of Cleversafe about their Dispersed Storage technology. ...
- Tags: Cable Modem, Red Hat Inc., Broadband, Microsoft Windows 7, Cable, Microsoft Windows, Broadband Internet, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Virtualization, Utility Computing, Open Source, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, Operating Systems, Software, Storage, Hardware, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2009-06-26
- Another view on Red Hat's Virtualization Portfolio
- Red Hat just trumpeted that its Virtualization Portfolio was just about cooked and ready to serve. While that announcement see Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Beta Draws Industry Interest did gather some industry comment, including that made by my colleage Paula Rooney (see Red Hat's KVM-based virtualization platform moves into beta...
- Tags: Virtualization, Red Hat Inc., Open Source, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2009-06-22
- Red Hat and Intel: Moving Intelligence Forward
- Put state-of-the-art intelligence to work on the challenges of tomorrow by running Red Hat Enterprise Linux* on the latest Intel® Xeon® processors. Red Hat's open source, commercial-strength innovation delivers optimized results for performance, energy efficiency, and advanced virtualization on Intel platforms, all at an affordable price.
- Tags: Red Hat Inc., Intel Corp., Open Source
- White papers 2009-06-17
- Red Hat's KVM-based virtualization platform moves into beta testing
- It was a big day for Xen and a big day for the other open source virtualizatio hypervisor as well. Red Hat's KVM-based virtualization platform -- including a standalone hypervisor, virtualization manager for servers and virtualization manager for the desktop -- moved into beta testing on Tuesday....
- Tags: Hypervisor, Red Hat Inc., Xen, KVM, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Open Source, Hardware, Storage, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2009-06-16
- Red Hat releases Fedora 11
- Red Hat releases Fedora 11Comment translation Clive Longbottom says "It sounds really good, I'm sure it does what you want it to do and it has made improvements all round. And yet it isn't what people recognise or feel comfortable with. You can improve it all you want, but until...
- Tags: Linux, Branding, OPEN SOURCE, UNIX, Operating systems, Clive Longbottom, distro, Fedora Project, Red Hat Inc., brand
- Discussion threads 2009-06-11
- Red Hat releases Fedora 11
- Fedora 11 comes with new virtualization features, support for fingerprint readers and the promised ability for any email client to tap into Microsoft Exchange. Red Hat has officially released Fedora 11, a Linux distribution for developers that is a testbed for features for its flagship Red Hat Enterprise Linux...
- Tags: Red Hat Inc., Fedora Project, Linux, Open Source, Operating Systems, Software, Red Hat, Fedora 11, Nick Booth ZDNet UK
- News items 2009-06-11
- Red Hat support, patches, updates with the interoperability of Novell
- With one, unified management tool for both Linux and Windows, your mixed environments become completely interoperable, dramatically more efficient, and you can recognize dramatic cost savings. Learn how you can start saving today!
- Tags: Novell Inc., Interoperability, Red Hat Inc., Patch Management, Linux, Patches, Microsoft Windows, Open Source, Operating Systems, Software
- White papers 2009-06-08
- Red Hat's Fedora 11 to offer interop with Microsoft Exchange
- Red Hat's Fedora 11 to offer interop with Microsoft ExchangeFedora makes me uncomfortableLooks great, innovates like greased lightning, but I don't trust the attitude of the developers. Being on the bleeding edge of innovation all the time, leaves the end users with an operating system that they can't rely on.Weird...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, E-mail servers, Groupware, Fedora Project, Fedora 11, Red Hat Inc., Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Exchange Server
- Discussion threads 2009-06-02
- Red Hat's Fedora 11 to offer interop with Microsoft Exchange
- Red Hat is not going to let the Microsoft-Novell partnership dim its own prospects for interoperability. That seems to be the case with the Red Hat-sponsored open source Fedora project, which plans to release on June 9 a major upgrade of its free Linux that offers robust...
- Tags: Red Hat Inc., Microsoft Exchange Server, Fedora Project, Messaging, Microsoft Corp., Instant Messaging, Groupware, Open Source, Internet, Online Communications, Enterprise Software, Software, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2009-06-02
- News to know: Bing, Twitter, Kindle, E3, Red Hat, Istanbul
- 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. Larry Dignan: Bing is live: Nice first impression; Will Bing boost Cashback? Bing's real return: A catalyst to a...
- Tags: Larry Dignan, Red Hat Inc., Andrew Nusca, Microsoft Corp., Twitter, Sam Diaz, Engineering, Game Players, Sales Strategy, Semiconductors, Network Technology, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Sales, Hardware, Networking
- Blog posts 2009-06-02
- Red Hat announces strategy to "future-proof" Java
- Red Hat announces strategy to "future-proof" Javaanother nail in M$ coffinwith OSS backing red hat and java will prosper and M$ FUD machine is running out of fuel.Well I don't know about MS......but I definitely hope this is the beginning of FOSS playing nice with Java again. It would be...
- Tags: Programming languages, Red Hat Inc., strategy, Java, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-06-01
- Red Hat announces strategy to "future-proof" Java
- Red Hat today announced the JBoss Open Choice application platform strategy, an approach that the company says will redefine the use of Java in the enterprise by making it easier to develop and deploy applications. The idea, the company said, is to give developers a single environment for launching different...
- Tags: Strategy, Red Hat Inc., Programming, Programming Languages, Java, Development Tools, Open Source, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-06-01
- Is an IBM purchase of Red Hat inevitable?
- Is an IBM purchase of Red Hat inevitable?Jboss would complement Websphere?Really? Is that like how MySQL is going to complement Oracle's flagship product? Doesn't make sense to me, these products are in direct competition with eachother.I think the biggest threat to RedHat's business model is CentOS. Smart...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, UNIX, Operating systems, Servers, Storage, IBM Corp., Red Hat Inc., Sun Microsystems Inc., X64, Linux, Sun T2, server
- Discussion threads 2009-05-15
- Is an IBM purchase of Red Hat inevitable?
- Despite a bevy of questions---looming competition from Oracle, takeover rumors and a weak economy---Red Hat appears to be humming along, according to Jeffries analyst Katherine Egbert. But in the long run, Red Hat will have to be subsumed into a large company---most likely IBM. In a research...
- Tags: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Oracle Corp., Red Hat Inc., IBM Corp., Katherine Egbert, IT Game, Open Source, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-05-15
- Red Hat maps dispel some open source myths
- Red Hat maps dispel some open source mythsNot surprisedThis is for the best anyway. Who really wants to use Chinese software? Everything they make is inferior quality. Their software won't be any different.Americans and available "free time".Perhaps the big reason open source does well in the US...
- Tags: Red Hat Inc., open source, software
- Discussion threads 2009-04-22
- Red Hat maps dispel some open source myths
- If government rhetoric and claims of support can boost a national open source community then change is coming. A great experiment has begun and I hope the map is redone in a few years so we can visualize the results. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Red Hat Inc., Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2009-04-22
- Red Hat: Customers less scared now
- Red Hat: Customers less scared nowRed Hat: Customers less scared nowThese guys will tell any sort of lies to get people to buy their crappy product. Customers weren't scared, they just didn't want to run linux and they still don't. Its way too much hassle.
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Red Hat Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-03-26
- Red Hat: Customers less scared now
- Red Hat chief Jim Whitehurst said that customers aren't as shell-shocked as they were three months ago. The good news: Enterprise buyers don't see a depression on the horizon. The bad news: It remains to be seen whether enterprises will be in the buying mood and Red Hat has to...
- Tags: Revenue, Red Hat Inc., Open Source, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-03-26

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