Sponsored White Papers, Webcasts, and Downloads
Additional Resources
- For 2008 media will create Red Hat-Ubuntu war
- Here's an easy prediction to make. In 2008 the media will gin up a "war" between Red Hat and UbuntuĀ for "control" of Linux. It's already started. The latest distribution of Red Hat Fedora, Fedora 8, is called "an assault" on Ubuntu at MadPenguin. If...
- Tags: Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2007-12-31
- Can an airline exec run Red Hat? You'd be surprised
- Can an airline exec run Red Hat? You'd be surprisedGoodbye customer service...If there's one thing we know, it's that the airline industry falls behind only one other...the cellphone industry...as being the worst in customer service. Way to go Red Hat.Running Linux like an airlineWhat happens when an airline exec...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, MANAGEMENT SKILLS, Red Hat Inc., customer service, Delta
- Discussion threads 2007-12-21
- News to know: Red Hat's new CEO; RIM; FTC on privacy; Best PC components
- Notable headlines: Red Hat names new Whitehurst CEO; Szulik stays chairman. A message from Matthew. Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Hardware 2.0 "Best Kit List" for Dec 07/Jan 08. Without competition from AMD, Intel starts to put the brakes on releases Podcast: A look back at 2007 ...
- Tags: Google Inc., Research In Motion Ltd., Red Hat Inc., PC, Privacy, RIM BlackBerry, DoubleClick Inc., FTC, Mergers & Acquisitions, Handhelds, Investment, Finance, Hardware, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2007-12-21
- Red Hat names new Whitehurst CEO; Szulik stays chairman
- Red Hat on Thursday named former Delta Airlines executive James Whitehurst CEO effective Jan. 1. Current chief Matthew Szulik continues as chairman. Whitehurst was most recently the chief operating officer at Delta Airlines and helped navigate the airline's bankruptcy restructuring. Whitehurst joined Delta in 2002. In a...
- Tags: Red Hat Inc., Delta Airlines, Open Source, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2007-12-20
- EU court upholds decision against Microsoft
- The EU's Court of First Instance rejected Microsoft's appeal from a European Commission ruling that the company engaged in anticompetitive behavior. The decision upholds the Commission's ability to regulate antitrust matters, News.com reports, as well as a $613 million fine. "The court ruling is...welcome for its confirmation of the...
- Tags: Commission, Antitrust, Microsoft Corp., Decision, ZDNet Government
- Blog posts 2007-09-17
- EU emboldened; Who's next on the hit list?
- Now that European regulators got their big victory over Microsoft attention should turn to who's next on their hit list. The EU case against Microsoft market position and anticompetitive behavior boiled down to two items: The ability of Microsoft to bundle its media...
- Tags: Brad Smith, Red Hat Inc., Market Share, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Intel Corp., Court, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2007-09-17
- Time to get off Red Hat's case?
- Time to get off Red Hat's case?Undeserved criticismPeople have been griping about Red Hat for at least ten years with everything from "they're out to become the next Microsoft" [1] to Anton's refusal to see any distinction between RH's business model and MS'.I agree, it's overdue for ending.I am by...
- Tags: Red Hat Inc., open source, open source house
- Discussion threads 2007-06-29
- 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
- Red Hat CEO decries software patents
- Red Hat CEO decries software patentsRed Hat CEO decries software patentsMore lies from the linux crowd. Patents aren't slowing innovation, they are protecting companies properties. If linux distros are so concerned about patents they should have had a better plan than to blatantly copy every one else. ...
- Tags: U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, patent, software, software patent, innovation, Red Hat Inc.
- Discussion threads 2007-05-22
- Is no news good news for Red Hat?
- Is no news good news for Red Hat?Red Hat CEO deaf to VMware's giant sucking sound[url=http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/05/09/redhat_szulik_vmware/]fyi[/url]The link is to a story about VMWareRed Hat CEO Szulik did not respond to questions regarding the fact that VMWare is now a bigger company than Red Hat. Recommended reading. Just remember to come...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Red Hat Inc., VMware Inc.
- Discussion threads 2007-05-10
- Red Hat's CEO prefers to lay low on GPLv3
- Red Hat reported its fiscal fourth quarter earnings on Thursday and delivered a few interesting tidbits on the conference call. Stephen Shankland has the financials covered so lets go right to the takeaways from the SeekingAlpha transcript: 1. Red Hat is optimistic about the...
- Tags: Software Infrastructure, Red Hat, Open Source, Linux, General
- Blog posts 2007-03-30
- Red Hat revenue up, profit down
- Red Hat revenue up, profit downRed Hat revenue up, profit downIt's amazing how quickly linux is declining. Its kind of sad that it never had a chance. Maybe, just maybe if it actually lived up to the hype people would have thought about trying it. As we see...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Java development tools, Linux, Investment, Financial accounting, Red Hat Inc., JBoss, revenue
- Discussion threads 2007-03-29
- showusthecode.com
- This link comes from the Hardware 2.0 mailbag.The Linux community tries again to get Microsoft to come clean over claims that Linux violates Microsofts intellectual property. This time a website set up calls upon the Redmond giant to Show Us the Code.The site contains an open letter to Microsoft...
- Tags: Legal, Linux, Microsoft
- Blog posts 2007-02-26
- Red Hat: Savings of $5 to $10 per server not motivation to leave us
- Red Hats third quarter went well and the company had bookings of $133 million, well ahead of what analysts were looking for. Meanwhile, the company said 28 percent of its bookings were multiyear deals. As expected, any competition from Oracle isnt showing up yet in Red Hats results....
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, motivation, Red Hat Inc., Red Hats, pricing, Oracle Corp., Linux, server
- Blog posts 2006-12-22
- Red Hat's Szulik responds to Oracle's frontal assault
- Red Hat's Szulik responds to Oracle's frontal assaultInvestors are cattle.The least little thing startles them and they stampede. The truly sad thing is, the ones that should know better are usually the first to get spooked.Ok, maybe I need to read the article again.I missed the part where RedHat cried...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, investor, Red Hat Inc., Oracle Corp., GPL
- Discussion threads 2006-10-30
- Red Hat's Szulik responds to Oracle's frontal assault
- Red Hat CEO Matthew Szulik responded to Oracle's attack on its business, slashing supports costs for Red Hat Linux by half, by saying that his company will not cut prices. The remarks were made during an interview on CNBC, after the Red Hat stock tanked by nearly 25 percent after...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Red Hat Inc., Oracle Corp., Linux
- Blog posts 2006-10-30
- Ellison's Red Hat hijacking maneuver
- I was talking to Goldman Sachs sage Rich Sherlund about Oracle's move to basically hijack Red Hat's Linux by rolling its own binary distro based on Red Hat and starting a support price war that Oracle can win. Rick said that "Larry is driving now," and didn't want to end...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Red Hat Inc.
- Blog posts 2006-10-25
- Lance Armstrong leads off AMD's Global Vision Conference
- This week I am attending AMD’s Global Vision Conference at the posh Ritz-Carlton in Pasadena, near Los Angeles. The agenda is focused on innovations and global impacts, and features a diversity of speakers, including DNA co-discoverer James Watson, Dreamworks’ mogul Jeffrey Katzenberg, Wal-Mart CMO John Fleming, Sun chief scientist John...
- Tags: Armstrong
- Blog posts 2006-09-19
- The trouble with idiots
- The trouble with idiotsAre you certain?You indicated that the CEO of Red Hat made $66 million. I followed the link and clicked on the "high salaries" link associated and found this:Matthew J. Szulik,Red HatCEO, $640,000From the heading, the total includes bonus.Is it possible you gave him an extra decimal...
- Tags: Games, OPEN SOURCE, Enderle, zombie, Jayson Blair
- Discussion threads 2006-09-15
- << Previous
- page 1 of 1
- Next >>
White Papers and Webcasts