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 FreedomOSS brings an elaborate expertise in Cloud Computing and SOA to your business. As a services organization, Frredom OSS collaborates with customers to design a SOA blueprint coupled with Cloud Computing solution to fit the customer's needs. When you have a SOA problem and a solut...Mar. 29, 2009 02:30 PM EDT Reads: 1,879 |
 Red Hat's earnings dropped 30% to $16 million, eight cents share, in its fourth quarter ended in February. Revenue was up 18% year-over-year but up only 1% sequentially to $166.2 million. The company's 22-cents-a-share non-GAAP income was two cents better than expected thanks to cost c...Mar. 26, 2009 05:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,816 |
 In a completely uncharacteristic and counter-culture move – the recession has slashed a lot of dividends – Oracle is going to pay out its very first dividend. It’s going to pay five cents a share starting in May at the cost of about a billion a year. No, it’s not coming out of Larry’s ...Mar. 25, 2009 10:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,947 |
 SYS-CON Events announced today that leading Virtualization, SOA, and Cloud Computing technology provider Mosso was named "Silver Sponsor" of SYS-CON's 2nd International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo, colocated with 5th International Virtualization Conference & Expo, March 30 - Apri...Mar. 25, 2009 10:00 PM EDT Reads: 3,460 |
 AppZero's software (http://www.appzero.com) virtualizes server-side applications in a way that makes the provisioning of applications as services almost instantaneous: across a network on any server (physical or virtual), in the datacenter, hosted, or in the cloud. In addition to great...Mar. 25, 2009 06:45 PM EDT Reads: 2,775 |
 Michael Dell claimed Tuesday that simply the talk of a Sun-IBM tie-up is an "enormous opportunity" for Dell servers since it creates an air of uncertainty around the future of Sun's Solaris-based boxes and accelerates the move to x86 Linux machines. According to reports Dell's CEO said...Mar. 24, 2009 09:00 PM EDT Reads: 3,404 |
 There was a flurry of activity in Red Hat stock Monday - up 17% at one point - on what were called "widely published" rumors Oracle might buy it. Remember how Oracle copped Red Hat's Linux for its own six years ago and how it was going to eat Red's lunch? There's been Oracle-Red Hat sp...Mar. 24, 2009 08:30 PM EDT Reads: 1,993 |
 Red Hat announced that U21Global migrated to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 with integrated virtualization to implement a solution that could scale with growing business needs. It selected Red Hat Enterprise Linux to leverage its built-in virtualization technology in order to reduce its ha...Mar. 11, 2009 11:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,430 |
 Heidrick & Struggles, the big headhunter, says it's seeing "clients in need of immediate access to top talent who can step into short-term situations and solve problems quickly, or provide operating insights and advise" so it's setting up what it calls a Chief Advisor Network to fill t...Mar. 9, 2009 10:15 AM EDT Reads: 2,467 |
 Red Hat, which is coming from behind and has to mange a change in strategic direction, moving its followers from Xen to KVM virtualization, is putting together a new portfolio of virtualization products that’s supposed to break down the existing barriers to virtualization adoption and ...Feb. 26, 2009 09:30 AM EST Reads: 1,819 |
 Red Hat announced its virtualization agenda and roadmap for 2009, including confirmation that its ecosystem of applications tested and certified to run on Red Hat Enterprise Linux are also certified to run in a Red Hat virtualized platform with no modifications. With this news, Red Hat...Feb. 23, 2009 12:30 PM EST Reads: 1,012 |
 Steve Albrecht, Associate Dean of the Marriott School of Management at Brigham Young University, has resigned from Red Hat’s board, effective June 30, to go on a three-year Mormon mission to Japan. Albrecht chairs the board’s audit committee and is a member of its compensation committe...Feb. 20, 2009 07:45 PM EST Reads: 902 |
 Red Hat and Microsoft, about as virulent a pair of enemies as has ever existed, threw a leash over their fire-breathing dragons long enough on Monday to announce a cooperative pact forced on them by their mutual users - folks who may be holding back from committing to virtualization ah...Feb. 18, 2009 12:45 AM EST Reads: 2,491 |
 Open source solutions firm, Red Hat's JBoss releases Enterprise Portal Platform 4.3, developed as an integrated and standards-based open source platform for hosting and portal based applications and rich web presences. Craig Muzilla, Vice President of Red Hat's Middleware business rema...Feb. 17, 2009 02:30 PM EST Reads: 994 |
 Red Hat has signed reciprocal agreements with Microsoft Corporation to enable increased interoperability for the companies’ virtualization platforms. Each company will join the other's virtualization validation/certification program and will provide coordinated technical support for th...Feb. 16, 2009 01:45 PM EST Reads: 1,008 |
 Red Hat got JBoss Application Server 5.0 out in December and is now revving its engine. It says to expect three modular, supported point releases of the widgetry this year meant for everything from web serving to a full enterprise-class battery. The componentization comes compliments o...Feb. 16, 2009 10:15 AM EST Reads: 1,041 |
 Red Hat, together with its JBoss Solution Partners, has announced the formation of a new open source community project focused on enterprise-class middleware migrations. The JBoss MASS (migration assistance) community will focus on the creation of migration tools and a migration resour...Feb. 12, 2009 06:00 AM EST Reads: 789 |
 Red Hat has announced the global availability of JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform 4.3, an integrated and standards-based open source platform for hosting, portal-based applications, and rich web presences. JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform 4.3 has improved server performance, high avail...Feb. 12, 2009 05:00 AM EST Reads: 953 |
 Open source software development in Russia is one of the most important directives for Igor Schegolev - the Head of the Ministry of Information Technologies and Communications of the Russian Federation. Schegolev met with Werner Knoblich, Red Hat Vice President for EMEA at the Ministry...Feb. 10, 2009 07:00 PM EST Reads: 1,269 |
 The US Defense Department has created forge.mil, its own Red Hat-based security-defended knockoff of Sourceforge accessible only with smartcards for those who would edit or contribute open source code and a DOD, CAC or ECA certificate. It’s reportedly only got information on three proj...Feb. 6, 2009 11:48 AM EST Reads: 1,526 |
 Red Hat announced that Bank of New Zealand, a subsidiary of the National Australia Bank Group, has deployed Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 on IBM System z mainframes to solve environment, space and cost issues related to its datacenter. With Red Hat and IBM solutions, Bank of New Zealand h...Feb. 5, 2009 05:00 PM EST Reads: 907 |
 Eight months after version 1.0 was originally released, Red Hat has released Red Hat Enterprise MRG 1.1, its Linux platform for time-critical applications. The Grid capabilities in the 1.0 release were still experimental. However, Red Hat says that they are now fit for use in productio...Feb. 5, 2009 02:55 PM EST Reads: 682 |
 Acxiom Corporation has selected Red Hat Enterprise Linux as the standard operating system for its grid processing environment. Acxiom’s grid infrastructure is designed to improve efficiency, maintain consistency across its systems and logically partition resources to meet its clients’ ...Jan. 30, 2009 02:00 PM EST Reads: 1,311 |
 Over the last 5 years, the open community has turned its attention to virtualization. In this session from Virtualization Conference & Expo 2009 West, Brian Stevens discussed what has been achieved and what is under development, and most important why open source is critical when build...Jan. 27, 2009 07:30 PM EST Reads: 4,267 |
 Red Hat announced that CQUniversity, an Australian university with ten campuses and more than 21,00 students and staff, has migrated its critical IT systems to Red Hat solutions. CQUniversity offers a wide range of undergraduate and postgraduate courses on-campus and through distance e...Jan. 26, 2009 06:00 PM EST Reads: 1,580 |
 Ingres Corporation and Red Hat are teaming up in a joint keynote presentation at the upcoming “Open Source Meets Business” congress for CIOs, CTOs, and IT decision makers. The event is scheduled for January 27 – 29 in the CongressCenter Nuremberg. Tom Berquist, CFO at Ingres, will co-h...Jan. 23, 2009 07:00 AM EST Reads: 1,181 |
 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3 is out. It adds 150 updates and enhancements, including enhanced virtualization scalability, increased scalability of virtualized x86-64 environments, support for Intel’s quad-core 45nm Core i7 Nehalem processors, OpenJDK, the open source implementation of ...Jan. 23, 2009 07:00 AM EST Reads: 1,530 |
 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Platform provides dramatic capabilities beyond basic Enterprise Linux 5. Integrated server and storage virtualization technologies in a single, easily managed product, with a complete and highly functional environment. Included in Red Hat Enterprise Li...Jan. 22, 2009 07:00 AM EST Reads: 1,854 |
 Red Hat raided Intel for a guy to run its North American sales and came back with Greg Symon, who had been running the global software relations organization within Intel’s Software Solutions Group. Symon started the unit. Red Hat expects him to expand its enterprise customer base and ...Jan. 17, 2009 07:00 AM EST Reads: 1,644 |
 Red Hat offshoot rPath has named Tim Buckley, once the COO of Red Hat and lately the principal of Buckley Investments, to its board as executive chairman. He’s supposed to help rPath accelerate its push into the enterprise market with solutions for reducing the cost and complexity of d...Jan. 17, 2009 07:00 AM EST Reads: 1,514 |
 rPath today announced that Tim Buckley, principal of Buckley Investments and former chief operating officer of Red Hat, has joined the rPath board of directors as the executive chairman. From his newly created post, Buckley will help rPath accelerate its push into the enterprise market...Jan. 13, 2009 02:22 PM EST Reads: 1,542 |
Red Hat has named Greg Symon as vice president and general manager of North American sales. With more than 25 years of business and sales experience, Symon will play a key leadership role in the development and execution of Red Hat's North American sales strategy and growth. Prior to R... Jan. 13, 2009 11:36 AM EST Reads: 2,123 |
 2008 was an eventful, breakthrough year for many open source companies, and 2009 will hold even more promise for the open source market, especially in terms of business purchasing patterns, software business model shifts, and enterprise software stack evolution. The current economic co...Jan. 7, 2009 01:00 AM EST Reads: 5,463 |
 AMD has released code on the ATI R600 series concerning 3D acceleration so that the open-source Linux drivers can begin to support the newer ATI graphics processors. This Linux code is needed to begin fostering the development of an open-source R600 3D driver. The microcode for the new...Jan. 5, 2009 01:00 AM EST Reads: 2,209 |
 Wikis are a great software tool for collaboratively creating and editing content. They seem to be an obvious choice for building a community Web infrastructure. Yet they have serious drawbacks that made JBoss.org choose a Content Management System (CMS) instead of a Wiki to build its n...Dec. 30, 2008 07:00 AM EST Reads: 5,025 Replies: 2 |
 Red Hat is on its way to supporting Google Web Toolkit (GWT) as part of its JBoss Enterprise Application Platform subscription. GWT is the open source project that helps Java developers build AJAX web applications for any browser, something traditional UI technologies for Java EE can't...Dec. 17, 2008 08:45 AM EST Reads: 5,251 Replies: 1 |
 Fedora 10 is out and about. Fedora of course is Red Hat's freebie community OS and testbed for coming attractions in Red Hat Enterprise Linux. The new rev is supposed to have substantial virtualization improvements for remotely installing and managing storage provisioning and includes ...Nov. 26, 2008 03:45 PM EST Reads: 3,069 |
The Fedora Project, a Red Hat sponsored and community-supported open source collaboration project, has announced the availability of Fedora 10, the latest version of its free open source operating system distribution. Fedora 10 features numerous leading-edge technologies and continues ... Nov. 26, 2008 09:00 AM EST Reads: 2,704 |
AMD, in collaboration with Red Hat, have demonstrated the “live migration” of a virtual machine across vendor platforms. Live migration enables the movement of running virtual machines from one physical server to another without disrupting service to the end user, something that, till ... Nov. 10, 2008 08:15 AM EST Reads: 2,069 |
 NetSuite, Larry Ellison’s other company, the on-demand one usually seen as a foil for Salesforce.com and its CEO, ex-Ellison lieutenant Marc Benioff, has started directing its attention to Larry’s great hereditary enemy, SAP. It’s got a new migration program called Business ByNetSuite ...Nov. 7, 2008 12:43 PM EST Reads: 2,191 |
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