Red Hat To Certify Linux Apps For Amazon's EC2, Jul 01, 2009

Red Hat (is trying to make it easier to run applications under Linux in the cloud. It's going to certify which partners are competent at building cloud workloads to run with its Enterprise Linux.

What with Oracle CEO Larry Ellison showing a hefty appetite for enterprise software companies including those selling Open Source products (meaning, anyone can alter the source code), the blogs and analyst ranks are buzzing with rumors that RedHat will get bought by Oracle.

Software company Red Hat reported a seven percent rise in quarterly profit on Wednesday, bucking an industry trend of declining earnings, as its margins widened under the scrutiny of its cost-conscious chief executive.

Virtualization is a key technology for Linux vendor Red Hat which earlier this year outlined a broad new virtualization roadmap including new products and technologies.

Virtualization is a key technology for Linux vendor Red Hat which earlier this year outlined a broad new virtualization roadmap including new products and technologies. Those efforts are now starting to bear fruit, with Red Hat this week indicating that it's now entering the beta phase of deployment.

Latest Red Hat community Linux sports faster speed and virtualization features of interest to enterprise users.

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.

Despite the worst recession in decades, Linux giant Red Hat added 600 employees to its rolls during the 12 months that ended Feb. 28, and the Raleigh company anticipates more hiring going forward, according to a filing Wednesday with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

Red Hat, Inc. today announced a call for presentations for its Open Source Cloud Computing Forum, a virtual event scheduled to take place July 22, 2009. The Forum will focus on how open source software and standards will advance the development and value of cloud computing environments.

Open source giant Red Hat has hinted that it might look to extend its new Open Source Channel Alliance scheme to Europe if the US launch proves successful.

JBoss CTO Sacha Labourey is leaving Red Hat. Labourey had been at JBoss for the past eight years, nearly three of which were under Red Hat's ownership. Labourey's departure comes over two years after JBoss founder Marc Fleury left Red Hat in 2007.

Shares of software distributor Red Hat Inc. fell Tuesday with the broader market after climbing steeply with Monday's rally, helped by market talk of a potential buyout from Oracle Corp.

How a Red Hat 'stealth' patent impinges on a crucial open standard.

Shares of Linux software provider Red Hat Inc climbed 10 percent on Monday and analysts said that investors were betting that the company would be acquired by Oracle Corp. Officials with Red Hat and Oracle declined comment.

There was a time when having an IT certification was the key to getting a job -- that time may be here again. Back in 1999, when many people were out getting MCSE's and CNEs (remember those?), Red Hat launched its Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) program.

Red Hat, Inc. has released a beta build of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 4.8, the fully-supported legacy line of the company's enterprise-class Linux distribution.

Red Hat, Inc., the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced the launch of its third annual Red Hat Innovation awards to be presented at the 2009 Red Hat Summit and JBoss World, co-located this year in Chicago Sept. 1-4, 2009.

Software Tree has filed a lawsuit against Red Hat claiming the Linux distribution and open source middleware manufacturer has infringed upon one of its patents.

Red Hat have advised that Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 2.1 will not be supported after the 31st of May, 2009. After that date all technical support services, bug fixes, enhancements and security errata updates will no longer be provided.

In 2007, Fedora, Red Hat's community Linux distribution, hit an all-time low. Users were leaving it behind in favor of Ubuntu and openSUSE. Two years later though, Paul Frields, Fedora project leader, declared that there has been "a major up-tick in Fedora involvement over the last 6 months.

Last week Red Hat announced a virtualisation pact with Microsoft and this week Red Hat announced an entire lineup of open source virtualisation tools.

Red Hat introduces a family of virtualisation products -- Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization.

Red Hat used to be in the desktop business along with all the other Linux distributors. Then, they left. Now, they are coming back.

As things stood before Feb. 17, neither one of them would provide technical support for the other's operating system.

Red Hat is taking an unusual course of action in its defence against IP Innovation's patent infringement claim.

Red Hat today announced that W. Steve Albrecht will resign from Red Hat’s Board of Directors, effective June 30, 2009.

For years, Microsoft has insisted that open-source vendors acknowledge that its patent portfolio is a precursor to interoperability discussions. Monday, Microsoft shed that charade and announced an interoperability alliance with Red Hat for virtualization.

New Features in JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform 4.3 Support Wide Range of Composite Applications

Red Hat's Enterprise MRG 1.1 is sculpted to best carry out messaging, real-time, and grid computing workloads. The company also announced shipment of an alpha version of Fedora 11.

Red Hat, the world's biggest seller of Linux software, has bought closely held Qumranet for $US107 million ($131 million) to add technology that helps computers run multiple programs, challenging VMware and Microsoft.

As my colleague Martin Heller recently observed, smart coders always optimize the slowest thing. Trying to optimize every trivial performance issue in your code is just chasing your own tail. You should find the one problem that's causing the biggest performance hit and fix that first.

Servers for both Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Fedora Linux were compromised in recent weeks by some kind of illegal access. Neither project however is currently admitting than any of their software or users were in any way directly affected by the illegal access.

Sabre Holdings Corp., the $3 billion online network best known for Travelocity, has adopted Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) as the corporate standard for its global ticketing and airline services businesses and will implement RHEL 5 in all future acquisitions.

What does the future hold for Linux development at Red Hat? A look at some of the new features coming in the Fedora 10 Linux distribution release might yield some clues.

The former Delta Airlines chief operating officer, who took the reins of the most established open-source software company from Matthew Szulik in January, names cloud computing as a top priority.

Red Hat on Wednesday said it is extending the first phase of its product lifecycle support for Enterprise Linux, when the most technical support resources are made available, from three years to four.

Distrito Federal Justice Court Deploys Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat Cluster Suite to Experience Increased Performance, Cost Savings and Security

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) versions 4 and 5 are going to stick around in full support mode a full year longer.

Linux vendor Red Hat is hoping that the open source community will join it on a Spacewalk.

Children are taught as early as preschool that sharing is an essential part of learning to get along with others. Yet some people still can't grasp the concept of sharing code or they reject open source because of the monetary value of ideas, said Jim Whitehurst, president and CEO of Red Hat, at the recent Red Hat Summit in Boston.

The fourth annual Red Hat Summit is expected to draw as many as 1,200 customers and vendors -- about 15% more than last year -- to Boston next week. The convention takes place June 18 through June 20 at the Hynes Convention Center.

Red Hat is announcing availability Wednesday of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2, with enhancements in virtualization, clustering, and hardware support.

Red Hat announced that announced that a European branch of the the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) has implemented its Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and Red Hat Network. NYSE Euronext is using RHEL for key components of its "mission-critical," high-speed financial trading environments, Red Hat said.

The latest release of Red Hat's community Linux distribution, Fedora 9, a.k.a. 'Sulfur', is out. The Sulfur release adds a host of new features, including virtualization, authentication, networking, file system and yes, even features that will benefit desktop users.

In an effort to scale middleware from its $420 million JBoss buyout upward to the enterprise, Red Hat this week released its JBoss Operations Network (JBoss ON) 2.0 management platform for applications running on Linux and other clients.

The Fedora Project has released a "preview" version of the Fedora 9 Linux distribution for download via Bittorrent. Shortly beforehand, the Project had adjusted the timetable for Fedora 9 and the Linux distribution is now scheduled for release on May 13, two weeks later than originally planned.

Red Hat has published a "preview release" of Fedora 9, the next version of its freely available Linux distribution, which will be the last public release before the final edition next month.

Is it really the worst thing in the world if Red Hat doesn't want to make a consumer-grade desktop Linux distribution? I don't think so. With all the things Red Hat already does so well, it's not as if it's missing out -- and if other people already are hard at work on that project, Red Hat still won't be missing out. This is open source, remember?

If you're waiting to see market-leading Linux vendor Red Hat Inc. release a desktop Linux operating system anytime soon to compete in the consumer market, then think again.

COMMERCIAL Linux distributor Red Hat says it has released all of the source code to the Red Hat Certificate System, its security framework for managing network user identities and transactions.

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