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- Red Hat
- (Red Hat, Inc., Raleigh, NC, www.redhat.com) A software company founded in 1994 by Marc Ewing and Bob Young that specializes in distributing the open source Linux operating system. ...
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- IT Dojo: Five things to consider when choosing a Linux distribution
- Some argue that Linux distributions are essentially the same, and you should just pick the one with the color scheme you like the best. In reality however, distributions are different and some will suit your company's needs better than others. In this IT Dojo video, Bill Detwiler discusses the following...
- Tags: linux distribution, information technology, operating systems, software, techrepublic inc., unix, strategy, management, it dojo, linux, bill detwiler, open source, ubuntu, red hat, operating system
- Videos 2008-08-04
- Gallery: Roadrunner: World's fastest supercomputer
- It took miles of wire and a bunch of processors from PlayStation 3, but IBM was able to break the 1-petaflop barrier for supercomper speed. by Andy Smith
- Tags: game players, consumer electronics, personal technology, andy smith, supercomputer, ibm, red hat
- Image galleries 2008-06-18
- Open Source Business Conference
- Day 1 of OSBC 2008 at Palace Hotel in San Francisco by Paula Rooney
- Tags: news, osbc kicks off, linux, open source, red hat
- Image galleries 2008-03-26
- Vendor Value: Rating the top tech companies
- Vendor Value: Rating the top tech companiesObviously bogusWe have lots of authoritative sources here who have assured us that Red Hat is gasping its last. There is simply [u]no way[/u] that nine times the percentage of Microsoft customers would prefer to leave them compared to Red Hat's.Especially since Red...
- Tags: linux, marketing research, microsoft windows, open source, servers, microsoft corp., survey, red hat, red hat inc., apple inc.
- Discussion threads 2007-11-20
- Red Hat ramps up virtualization drive for RHEL 5
- The good news for virtualization just keeps on coming. Monday, we reported that start-up Desktone had gotten an infusion of venture capital and that Cisco was buying a chunk of VMWare.Now, Red Hat's Emerging Technologies Team has a blog posting that shows how customers are using virtualization for fun and...
- Tags: software infrastructure, red hat, open source, linux
- Blog posts 2007-07-31
- Will Microsoft fit into OSI compromise?
- The last time I wrote about the OSI it was to praise the "peace deal" it made on the licensing front.The question today is, can Microsoft fit inside that deal?At the same OSCON conference where OSI approved its first "attribution" license, Microsoft "good cop" Bill Hilf left said last week...
- Tags: strategy, software licensing, red hat, microsoft, legal, general, events
- Blog posts 2007-07-31
- OSI avoids open source war
- Let us now praise Michael Tiemann. (Right, by Joi Ito.)When I wrote about open source CRM recently, I had no idea I was opening a Pandora's Box of controversy, which Tiemann proceeded to open on his blog.For a while I was afraid we were about to have a war over...
- Tags: strategy, software licensing, red hat, management, legal, general
- Blog posts 2007-07-27
- Red Hat takes SOA modeling tool concept to open source development
- In an attempt to add grease to the skids of SOA adoption, Red Hat has agreed to take a patented concept for a services modeling approach and usher it through an open source community development process before eventually adding it to the JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform.Red Hat announced today that...
- Tags: soa architect, soa, jboss, software development, soa governance, developer tools, software infrastructure, agile development, red hat, open source
- Blog posts 2007-07-24
- Blindly applying proprietary metrics to open source
- I am constantly amused at how people try to apply the metrics of proprietary software to open source.This can even happen within open source companies, as when Roy Russo of JBOSS writes on his blog that open source inherently leads to monopoly.In fact every business model leads to monopoly, or something...
- Tags: strategy, red hat, publishing, mergers &, acquisitions, management, linux, infrastructure, general, applications
- Blog posts 2007-07-18
- Oracle puts some Veritas meat on 'Unbreakable Linux'
- To date Oracle's Unbreakable Linux effort has been pretty quiet aside from a few conference call mentions. It certainly hasn't put Red Hat out to pasture. But the company is putting some meat on Unbreakable Linux. Exhibit A is Tuesday's announcement that Oracle and Symantec will certify Veritas data center...
- Tags: oracle, red hat, open source, linux, general
- Blog posts 2007-07-17
- What are open source committers worth?
- In the wild a peacock's tail tells the hens he's sexy, notes Nat Tolkington of O'Reilly.They also tell predators he's delicious. (Picture from the blog of Miles McCabe.)Open source commitment privileges have a similar effect.When I first took this beat, in early 2005, it was common for companies to brag...
- Tags: support, red hat, mergers &, acquisitions, marketing, management, general, development, applications
- Blog posts 2007-07-13
- Red Hat delivers middleware stepping stone to larger platform distribution in fall
- Red Hat has cemented another large stone into the foundation of its Enterprise Application Platform EAP 5.0, expected later this year, with the announcement of middleware solution EAP 4.2.EAP 4.2, the company's most comprehensive enterprise platform, weaves JBoss, Hibernate, and JBoss Seam into a single (integrated, tested, and certified) platform...
- Tags: datacenters, developer tools, eclipse, enterprise java, java, jboss, linux, open source, red hat, soa, soa architect, software development, software infrastructure, web services
- Blog posts 2007-07-12
- Sun demurs from adopting GPL v3 for OpenSolaris, keeps CDDL only
- I wonder what that was all about. I mean the last dozen months of Sun Microsystems seemingly interested in and participating in the definitions of GPL v3, only to come out now that GPL v3 is defined to say they will stick to CDDL for OpenSolaris and for now GPL...
- Tags: windows, sun microsystems, software infrastructure, red hat, patents, open source, microsoft, linux, intellectual property, ibm, gpl, enterprise java, apache
- Blog posts 2007-06-30
- Time to get off Red Hat's case?
- Red Hat is a company that is easy to dislike.Maybe it's the relationship with IBM. Maybe it's the way they absorbed JBOSS. Maybe it's CEO Matthew Szulik, or the proprietary way in which the company operates.Maybe it's because they're based in Raleigh, North Carolina, and don't schmooze the Silicon Valley...
- Tags: strategy, resellers, red hat, middleware, mergers &, acquisitions, management, linux, general, bsd
- Blog posts 2007-06-29
- Microsoft inks Linspire: Is Red Hat next?
- Microsoft inked its third Linux interoperability deal as the third version of General Public License nears the finish line. Will Red Hat fall in line soon?Microsoft today announced an interoperability deal with Linspire and the pact reads roughly like the one it has with Xandros. As we all know Microsoft...
- Tags: software infrastructure, red hat, open source, novell, microsoft, linux, general
- Blog posts 2007-06-14
- Open source revenues expected to soar -- but what of the savings?
- Researcher IDC has published market-sizing figures calculating that revenue from open source-focused businesses totaled $1.8 billion in 2006. More impactful is the expected growth pattern, according to CBR:IDC has also predicted that the market will grow by a compound annual growth rate of 26% from 2006 to reach $5.8bn in...
- Tags: windows, wall street, software infrastructure, software development, saas, red hat, open source, microsoft live, microsoft, linux, jboss, it management, intellectual property, ibm, gpl, google, eclipse, developer tools, datacenters, apache, .net
- Blog posts 2007-06-01
- How Red Hat is monetizing JBoss
- A little more than a year ago Red Hat acquired JBoss to enter the open source middleware market and the financial results thus far have been mixed. But now analysts are becoming more upbeat about JBoss and what it can contribute to Red Hat. In an analyst note, Credit Suisse...
- Tags: red hat, open source, linux, links
- Blog posts 2007-05-22
- Podcast: Microsoft patents, Dell's Project Hybrid, DRM-free music and more...
- This week on the Dan & David Show, we discuss Microsoft's accusation that the open-source software industry has infringed 235 Microsoft patents and Dell's Project Hybrid, which appears to be a plan deliver virtualized, plug-and-play servers for datacenters. We also Amazon's new DRM-free music service, Google's Universal search and...
- Tags: entertainment, drm, dell, datacenter, dan &, david show, apple, amazon, google, hardware infrastructure, it management, linux, microsoft, myspace, open source, red hat, software infrastructure, virtualization, web technology
- Blog posts 2007-05-17
- Survey says: Microsoft's patent might worries few, angers many more
- We all gained some illuminating feedback through the poll I conducted this week in my blog commentary on Microsoft's escalating aggression through patents-posturing about open source software's legitimacy.And while I will assume that the poll is not scientific, with a response tally of around 4,000, it does provide insight into...
- Tags: gpl, ibm, intellectual property, jboss, linux, microsoft, open source, patents, red hat, software infrastructure, vista, windows
- Blog posts 2007-05-17
- Moglen goes all Democratic on Microsoft
- I erred earlier in saying there was no news at the Red Hat summit in San Diego last week. Eben Moglen was there. Moglen, who keynoted last years Nashville summit, was not supposed to be the main attraction this time. But Microsoft had just done its thing, Moglen is a...
- Tags: foss, general, gpl, legal, microsoft, patents, politics, red hat, strategy
- Blog posts 2007-05-15
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- Red Hat Inc.
- Red Hat is engaged in providing open source software systems to the enterprise, including Co.'s key enterprise operating system platform, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, its...
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