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Red Hat is losing market share to VMware according to Wall Street analyst Katherine Egbert of Jefferies & Co, who downgraded Red Hat's stock Monday. She says Linux isn't needed to replace Unix, that Windows and VMware are more prevalent, and that Red Hat's going to have to diversify aw... Dec. 26, 2007 06:45 AM EST Reads: 9,093 |
 In a surprise move Thursday Red Hat named the former COO of Delta Airlines Jim Whitehurst president and CEO, replacing Matthew Szulik who remains chairman. Szulik said he was stepping down after almost 10 years with the company because of serious health issues with his family that he h...Dec. 22, 2007 10:30 PM EST Reads: 7,785 Replies: 1 |
Fratelli Carli has standardized its IT infrastructure on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, an open source application platform, to streamline the processing of orders and maintain system response times below one second through periods of peak demand. Dec. 19, 2007 12:00 PM EST Reads: 3,017 |
Transitive announced that its QuickTransit enterprise product line will be available for purchase from the Red Hat Exchange (RHX) online service. Working in collaboration with partners such as Transitive, applications available via RHX are validated to run on Red Hat Enterprise Linux, ... Dec. 19, 2007 12:00 PM EST Reads: 3,106 |
Norwegian browser maker Opera Software ASA has complained to the European Commission that Microsoft is abusing its dominant position by tying its Internet Explorer browser to the Windows operating system and hindering interoperability by not following accepted Web standards. It wants I... Dec. 17, 2007 09:30 AM EST Reads: 9,843 Replies: 1 |
A robust ecosystem of solutions providers is emerging around cloud computing. Here, SYS-CON's Cloud Computing Journal expands its list of most active players in the fast-emerging Cloud Ecosystem, from the 'mere' 100 we identified back in January of this year, to 250 - testimony, if any... Dec. 12, 2007 02:45 PM EST Reads: 44,611 Replies: 1 |
Centeris, the company that integrates Linux, Unix and Mac into Microsoft's Active Directory, often a lifesaver for mixed environments, has changed its name to Likewise Software after its flagship product and, while it was at it, announced its first open source project, Likewise Open. L... Dec. 9, 2007 10:00 PM EST Reads: 6,408 Replies: 1 |
Red Hat has swept up its messaging, real-time and grid mojo into a little beta pile it's calling Red Hat Enterprise MRG, a distributed computing platform that's optimized to run on top of RHEL, of course, but can work on other platforms as well, it says, either individually or in combi... Dec. 9, 2007 06:45 PM EST Reads: 6,783 |
 For building applications, BundleWorks includes ant tasks and command line tools to allow developers to build standard bundles for both custom and third-party applications. For testing, BundleWorks allows a developer to create and manage multiple environments to test multiple versions ...Dec. 5, 2007 01:30 PM EST Reads: 25,440 Replies: 1 |
 Software virtualization is the ability to run multiple operating systems at the same time on the same computer. The basic premise is that for most of the day your server is basically idle and the CPU and memory are not tasked with processes all day long, the server has excess capacity ...Dec. 3, 2007 05:30 PM EST Reads: 10,235 Replies: 1 |
See, IBM refuses to allow z/OS to run on PSI's Open Mainframes and so PSI is suing IBM for antitrust, hitting it with both barrels of the Sherman and Clinton Antitrust Acts in a plethora of monopoly charges that include tying the z/OS software to mainframe hardware, a serious antitrust... Dec. 1, 2007 11:45 AM EST Reads: 8,534 Replies: 1 |
Red Hat said Monday that the public beta of its operating system on the newfangled Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) was available. Amazon has taken to peddling resizable time, utility-style, on its own data center to other people and Red Hat arranged for its customers to run their ce... Nov. 30, 2007 01:45 PM EST Reads: 5,333 Replies: 1 |
 BEA's Deputy CTO Theo Beack, who joined the San Jose, CA-based company in May to do 'all the cool stuff,' according to an exclusive interview with SYS-CON at the time, shared with delegates at SOA World Conference & Expo 2007 in San Francisco today his current thinking about Web 2.0, S...Nov. 14, 2007 08:00 AM EST Reads: 21,524 Replies: 1 |
 The chief technology officer and vice president of engineering of Red Hat, Brian Stevens, will be giving the Virtualization Keynote entitled 'The Future of the Virtual Enterprise' at SYS-CON Events' upcoming Virtualization Conference & Expo 2007 West in San Francisco (November 12-13). ...Nov. 13, 2007 11:45 AM EST Reads: 32,092 Replies: 4 |
The three-year-old Dojo Foundation has put out version 1.0 of Dojo, an open source JavaScript toolkit for AJAX development meant for building rich Web 2.0 applications without proprietary plug-ins or single-vendor solutions. The widgetry makes use of Google Gears, Google's solution for... Nov. 9, 2007 02:45 PM EST Reads: 29,880 Replies: 1 |
Egenera, which claims it's the archetype Virtualization 2.0 company to VMware's Virtualization 1.0 - and is going put its PAN Manager software on other people's hardware to prove it - has convinced Fujitsu Siemens, which OEMs Egenera's BladeFrame servers, to put PAN on its own industry... Nov. 9, 2007 12:30 PM EST Reads: 16,600 Replies: 1 |
The infamous Microsoft-Novell interoperability/patent protection deal that FOSSers love to hate just passed its first birthday and, bragging that it's exceeded their original business targets, the pair has extended the arrangement. They're going to create a cross-platform accessibility... Nov. 9, 2007 10:00 AM EST Reads: 11,827 Replies: 1 |
Red Hat, which has made its fortune displacing Solaris, is now going to collaborate with Sun to advance open source Java, which Red Hat is particularly partial to given its JBoss investment. This is the third time this year that Sun has laid down with one of its enemies. It also cut d... Nov. 9, 2007 09:30 AM EST Reads: 18,640 Replies: 1 |
The promised Red Hat Exchange (RHX) has come into existence. That's where Red Hat is going to sell third-party software, open source stuff build around Red Hat Enterprise Linux and JBoss, sort of like what Linspire does, in combination with its own stuff. It's assumed the experiment wi... May. 12, 2007 06:15 PM EDT Reads: 7,584 |
Red Hat managed to increase its fiscal Q3 revenues a hefty 45% compared to last year but its earnings took a 37% dive. The company, which is under fire from Oracle and Microsoft, did $14.6 million, or seven cents a share, on revenues of $105.8 million. This time last year it returned $... Dec. 22, 2006 09:45 AM EST Reads: 7,759 |
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