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- IDC: Windows still leading server market, but revenues down 29 percent
- IDC: Windows still leading server market, but revenues down 29 percentI'm willing to bet.......that while those sales figures dropped across the board the actual installation of new servers didn't drop nearly as much.How is it measured ?Estimated sales blah blah blah. How do they estimate ? My company buys servers...
- Tags: Sales strategy, Operating systems, UNIX, Servers, OPEN SOURCE, RHT, server, Linux, International Data Corp., Microsoft Windows, revenue
- Discussion threads 2009-05-28
- Red Hat: JBoss picks up steam, but were the earnings that great?
- Red Hat: JBoss picks up steam, but were the earnings that great?What's your point?I'm trying to understand what point you're making about Red Hat's performance. Are you saying it's good, bad, optimistic, pessimistic?Anyway, Steven J Vaughn-Nichols' point about Red Hat making money, and continuing to grow it's revenue and...
- Tags: Red Hat Inc., open source business model, open source, revenue, JBoss
- Discussion threads 2008-03-28
- Red Hat calls JBOSS problems solved and marketing related
- Red Hat calls JBOSS problems solved and marketing relatedSmelly fish in Denmark?!""In the process of integration there were certainly hiccups. Some people left. It was a healthy enough number that it made a difference.""Sales & marketing people left? In healthy numbers? Ummm...pardon me, but before JBoss was bought...did...
- Tags: Java development tools, Development tools, Middleware, OPEN SOURCE, Sales strategy, Sales force management, Red Hat Inc., JBoss, RHT, marketing, sales
- Discussion threads 2008-03-10
- Time to call the Red Hat-JBOSS deal a failure?
- Time to call the Red Hat-JBOSS deal a failure?so we should all abandon OSS?Hi Dana,I have a few issues with your post (I was with JBoss from early 2004 until I left Red Hat in November 2007 by the way). Because SpringSource is holding user events in 5-star resorts,...
- Tags: Java development tools, Mergers & Acquisitions, Development tools, OPEN SOURCE, Middleware, RHT, JBoss, SpringSource, OSS, acquisition
- Discussion threads 2008-03-04
- Is it time to give Red Hat some respect?
- Is it time to give Red Hat some respect?ComparisonsYup, Microsoft is up 10% in the last year, while RHT is down about 10%. Then again, MSDT was at a 5-year low a year ago.Over the last five years, though, RHT is up 400% and MSFT is flat. The...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Financial accounting, Investment, Microsoft Corp., Red Hat Inc., RHT, share price, MSFT
- Discussion threads 2007-10-04
- The bottom line on Novell-Microsoft may be RedHat stock surge
- The bottom line on Novell-Microsoft may be RedHat stock surgeHave you ever seen a battleship turn?It takes time. Lets see where the numbers are a year from now.Oh that was superbntshow me the moneyMicrosoft has a market cap of $290 billionRed Hat has a market cap of...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Investment, MSFT, Novell Inc., Red Hat Inc., RHT, Microsoft Corp., stock
- Discussion threads 2007-02-05
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- Are the Microsoft layoffs over now?
- I hope soI hate seeing "SoandSo killing X amount of jobs" in the news =/Ballmer should be the first to get laid offHis reklessness to ignore the FOSS and cling to the proprietary model drove M$ into the ground.Q1 revenues of $13Bn generating $3.5Bn in net profit ...... would tend...
- Tags: Operational accounting, Financial services, accounting, Creative accounting, Microsoft Corp., layoff
- Discussion threads 2009-11-04
- Red Hat seeks respect for JBoss and ecosystem
- Over the last year Red Hat stock, traded under the symbol RHT, has outperformed the S&P 500, outperformed the Dow Jones average, and even outperformed Microsoft. Its gain in that time is only about 7.5%, but it has gained while others have suffered. Respect that. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Red Hat Inc., JBoss, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2009-09-02
- Alfresco agonistes
- Alfresco agonistesThe race to zero is almost completeIt is getting harder and harder to see viable business plans for open source. The recession which were supposed to be so great for open source is having the opposite effect: Instead of customers rushing to the open source model with "paid support",...
- Tags: COMPANIES, open source, Alfresco
- Discussion threads 2009-05-17
- Apache or GPL?
- Apache or GPL?Are pigs flying.This was an unbiased article and an excellent read.Name me one company that makes a LOT of moneyusing GPL'd code.Hint: $25 million a YEAR Red Hat earnings is NOT a lot of money.$9.74 billion a QUARTER Apple IS a lot of money.False Premise"On the other hand,...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, GPL, Apache Software Foundation
- Discussion threads 2009-04-29
- News to know: March Madness, Chrome beta, Sony-Google, Android
- Larry Dignan: March Madness meets IT: We're guinea pigs Matthew Miller: Follow all the March Madness action on your mobile phone Garett Rogers: Google releases new beta version of Chrome Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Google Chrome 2.0 Beta - Fast. Fast! FAST!!! ...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Sony Corp., Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Google Android, Sun Microsystems Inc., Dana Blankenhorn, Beta, Matthew Miller, Sam Diaz, Open Source
- Blog posts 2009-03-20
- Sony to expand its line of Bravia RHT-G HDTV stands with built-in speaker systems
- If you can't stand the clutter of multiple speakers strewn across your living room but want something a little more robust than a soundbar, Sony has previously offered the Bravia RHT-G800 Theater System Televison Stand. It featured a built-in multi-channel surround speakers, two subwoofers, and an...
- Tags: Sony Corp., built-In, Stand, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Sean Portnoy
- Blog posts 2009-03-19
- Novell chief: 'Our Linux performance did not meet our expectations'
- Novell chief: 'Our Linux performance did not meet our expectations'The PriceNo doubt Novell is experiencing the results of months of negative public feedback from the community that they betrayed with their MS deal.With the recent Red Hat/MS agreement (which doesn't compromise the community) Novell has lost their "interop" advantage.Red Hat...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, UNIX, Operating systems, performance, Novell Inc., Linux, SuSE, Linux performance
- Discussion threads 2009-02-27
- Red Hat acquires Qumranet
- I just received a press release telling me that one of my clients, Qumranet, has been acquired by Red Hat.This was not entirely unexpected. Here's what the release said Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced...
- Tags: Red Hat Inc., Qumranet Inc., Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Open Source, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-09-04
- JBoss, Apache founders engage in war of words on the web
- JBoss founder Marc Fleury lashed out Sunday at a blog written by an Apache chief claiming he did not pay proper homage to the Apache Software Foundation after making his fortune. In Maison Fleury's latest blog, entitled, "The Brotherhood is Displeased," Fleury takes issue with a...
- Tags: Web, Marc Fleury, Apache Software Foundation, JBoss, Jim Jagielski, ASF, Java Development Tools, Development Tools, Open Source, Middleware, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Enterprise Software, Software, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2007-11-26
- TIBCO hits skids on weak financial service markets
- TIBCO has hit the skids as its 26 per cent revenue trading exposure to weakening financial services markets led to a squeeze on deal closures in the latest quarter. Details of TIBCOs miss suggest that revenue is expected to come up short in the range of $3-9 million with license...
- Tags: Revenue, TIBCO Software Inc., Financial, Financial Service, SOA, TIBCOs Position, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2007-09-06
- Ballmer: Caught between a software rock and a services hard place
- Ballmer: Caught between a software rock and a services hard placeTake the money and run[i]If you were Ballmer, what would you do, at this point[/i]The stock market won't let Microsoft do anything radical enough to deal with structural market changes (see [i]The Innovator's Dilemma[/i]). That's a major reason why...
- Tags: Data centers, Tools & Techniques, Channel management, Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., Steve Ballmer, software
- Discussion threads 2007-07-10
- 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
- Is no news good news for Red Hat?
- Red Hat held its annual summit in San Diego this week. It drew scant press coverage.There were news announcements:Red Hat announced a Linux on mainframes program. There is still money in big iron.Red Hat will build a Virtual Appliance OS with Intel, delivering virtualization to desktops using Intels vPro.Red Hat...
- Tags: Linux Server OS, Linux Desktop OS, Linux, IBM, General, Development, marketing, Red Hat, Strategy
- Blog posts 2007-05-10
- Will Red Hat's RHEL 5 launch bolster virtualization?
- Red Hat executives have spent a lot of time talking about virtualization and how Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 will drive adoption. Starting today well be seeing some hard results. Red Hat at noon ET see Webcast will introduce Red...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, UNIX, Operating systems, Servers, Utility computing, Storage management, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, RHEL 5, Red Hat Inc., virtualization
- Blog posts 2007-03-14
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