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Embarcadero Technologies announced that they signed a definitive asset purchase agreement with Borland Software Corporation to purchase its CodeGear division. The transaction is expected to close in 30 to 60 days. By combining these comapnies in development tools and database tools, Em... May. 22, 2008 08:15 AM EDT Reads: 4,762 |
As Service-Oriented Architectures gain ground, it becomes obvious that their performance is the key to their success. I'm going to briefly write about two sessions that I attended in JavaOne 2008. They outline two totally different approaches from two very different companies. You're g... May. 21, 2008 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 5,317 |
 One of the hottest buzzwords you hear these days at conferences and read in blogs and forums is REST. It is often promoted as a way of building Web Services and as a lightweight alternative to SOAP and other Web Services frameworks, but in fact it's much more. REST is an architectural ...May. 20, 2008 08:45 AM EDT Reads: 4,121 |
 Sybase announced that AJAX development capabilities and further Microsoft .NET enhancements have been added to the latest version of Sybase PowerBuilder 11, the premier 4GL rapid application development (RAD) tool. PowerBuilder 11.2 represents another milestone in the PowerBuilder road...May. 19, 2008 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 7,082 |
Scalent Systems announced that it is one of the select finalists for 'Best Virtualization Product' in the European IT industry's Techworld Awards (formerly Network Awards). The Techworld Awards have recognized great products in the industry for over thirteen years. Scalent shares the t... May. 19, 2008 02:30 PM EDT Reads: 1,656 |
Microsoft issued a short, murky statement Sunday afternoon saying it has suggested a limited alignment with Yahoo. It does not explain its proposal. Perhaps it's thinking along the lines of the deal Yahoo is supposed to be negotiating with Google, perhaps a partial acquisition (perhaps... May. 19, 2008 12:45 PM EDT Reads: 4,352 Replies: 1 |
 Red Hat has been tinkering with senior management. Paul Cormier, executive VP of engineering, is now executive VP and president, product and technologies, responsible for product market, QA and support as well as engineering. CFO Charlie Peters is now also responsible operations and IT...May. 3, 2008 05:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,611 |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Delivers Record-Setting Performance Results with Reuters Market Data System Red Hat announced that Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.1, in combination with Reuters Market Data System (RMDS 6.0), IBM BladeCenter H and 10 Gigabit Ethernet technology from Blade Network Technologies and Chelsio Communications, delivers record-breaking performance results that meet key de... Apr. 30, 2008 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,104 |
 Red Hat has filed a friend of the court brief with the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals complaining that the patent system is a hindrance to open source and asking it to bar software patents - or at least put a leash on them. The court is supposed to hear the so-called Bilski case - wh...Apr. 22, 2008 02:15 PM EDT Reads: 5,437 Replies: 1 |
 In the last 36 hours - thanks to a posting on one of its blogs - Red Hat has gotten itself in a pretty mess over whether it's in or out of the desktop market, with the influential Wall Street Journal, among others, reporting that 'Red Hat Abandons PC Plan.' Well, Red Hat CTO Brian Stev...Apr. 22, 2008 02:15 PM EDT Reads: 3,645 |
 In its fourth fiscal quarter closed February 29 Red Hat earned $22 million, a dime a share, up 7% or a million and a half more than a year ago, on revenues up 27% year-over-year to $141.5 million. Cost of sales and marketing, it said, up 31% to $52 million while R&D was up 32% to $26.3...Apr. 1, 2008 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,536 |
Presens Technologies is conducting a survey in partnership with Red Hat. The mailing, which will be sent to CIOs and IT managers across North and South Carolina, aims toward mapping current use or intended plans to implement open source technologies in the corporate IT environment. The... Mar. 25, 2008 01:00 PM EDT Reads: 3,562 |
 Red Hat has open sourced its Certificate System - or rather those parts of it that weren't already open sourced. Certificate System, its identity management and security system, derives from the Netscape technology that Red Hat got from AOL three years ago and pieces of it like the Apa...Mar. 25, 2008 06:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,820 |
 Alcatel-Lucent, which owns Bell Labs, where Unix was created, says it's going to integrate Red Hat's Enterprise Linux and Realtime technologies into its communication products for SMEs with availability set for the first half of next year. No value was suggested but Alcatel pointed out...Mar. 24, 2008 08:30 PM EDT Reads: 1,417 |
 Russia Post and US Linux market leader Red Hat have signed what the post calls a 'protocol' agreeing to work together to introduce the Linux operating system and other unnamed open source programs to the post's IT structure. The deal was signed by the deputy general director of Russia ...Mar. 24, 2008 04:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,732 |
 Shades of IBM Global Services! Red Hat has bought itself a Virginia-based consulting firm that it will run as an independent Red Hat company - its first - to help it exploit its JBoss middleware acquisition. Red Hat hasn't disclosed what it's spent buying Amentra but it needs to make m...Mar. 17, 2008 12:45 PM EDT Reads: 2,887 |
 Red Hat is shoring up its IP expertise. Why we can only speculate about. It's hired two IP experts. Robert Tiller is now assistant general counsel. Richard Fontana, last with the Software Freedom Law Center and involved with Eben Moglen in drafting and getting the GPLv3 accepted, is no...Mar. 13, 2008 05:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,679 |
Red Hat announced that Florida Hospital relies on Red Hat Enterprise Linux, JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, Red Hat Global File System, Red Hat Cluster Suite and Red Hat Network to maintain reliable disaster-recovery systems that protect and maintain critical patient information... Mar. 10, 2008 12:30 PM EDT Reads: 3,114 |
 Red Hat listened to Microsoft's interoperability statement Thursday and then issued a statement of its own saying it wasn't enough. It thinks Microsoft should throw in the towel on getting its Office Open XML file format standardized by ISO and 'embrace the existing ISO-approved, cross...Feb. 22, 2008 01:15 PM EST Reads: 3,218 Replies: 1 |
 Remember how Oracle got ticked off that Red Hat wound up buying JBoss? And remember how Oracle poached Red Hat's operating system to sell as Oracle's own? Well, what goes around comes around. Red Hat is now setting out to attack Oracle through its pending takeover of BEA. Seems Red Hat...Feb. 20, 2008 02:15 PM EST Reads: 7,302 |
 Seam Remoting provides a convenient, AJAX-based client API for interacting with server-side Seam components with very little up-front development effort. This presentation will briefly introduce Seam and describe the features of Seam Remoting, demonstrating how easy it is to write clie...Jan. 25, 2008 09:45 AM EST Reads: 6,903 |
Red Hat announced that Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 has been selected as Gold medalist winner in the SearchEnterpriseLinux.com 2007 'Products of the Year' awards, in the Linux Server Distributions category. This annual award is presented by the editors of TechTarget's Data Center Media G... Jan. 22, 2008 08:00 AM EST Reads: 2,514 |
Managed hosting services provider, NetBenefit, will implement a managed hosting solution based upon the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Cluster Suite. The collaboration with Red Hat emphasizes NetBenefit's position as an experienced provider of business critical managed hosting solutions fo... Jan. 14, 2008 10:00 AM EST Reads: 2,943 |
 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 |
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: 6,409 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 |
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 |
Red Hat announced that EsSalud has adopted Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 to stabilize its organization-wide systems through a swift, transparent and cost-effective implementation project. EsSalud turned to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 on HP hardware to reliably and cost-effectively centra... Nov. 29, 2007 10:00 AM EST Reads: 5,094 |
OpenService, Inc. announced that the company?s InfoCenter? software suite has been certified by Red Hat (NYSE: RHT) through its Red Hat Ready program. The certification attests to the testing OpenService conducted to assure full compatibility of InfoCenter on Red Hat Enterprise Linux A... Nov. 26, 2007 09:00 AM EST Reads: 6,489 |
 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: 32,093 Replies: 4 |
 Red Hat's automation strategy ('any application, anywhere, anytime') is the backbone of its strategy for the infrastructure future, said chief technology officer and vice president of engineering, Brian Stevens, as he gave the Virtualization Keynote in San Francisco this morning entitl...Nov. 13, 2007 11:15 AM EST Reads: 8,788 |
 'Other virtualization products don't scale to support large numbers of cores or CPUs, which limit customers' ability to utilize their infrastructure, or force customers to deploy multiple virtualization platforms,' said Paul Cormier, EVP of Worldwide Engineering at Red Hat, as the Rale...Nov. 9, 2007 09:45 AM EST Reads: 11,102 Replies: 2 |
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 astonishingly rapid rise of virtualization technology has made it a vital component of any Enterprise IT strategy today. And the technology is triggering dramatic changes in product offerings and business practices to support virtualized operational models. These breakneck speed de... Nov. 9, 2007 08:15 AM EST Reads: 11,697 Replies: 1 |
Open source has made signficant inroads into middleware deployments in the enterprise. More and more, open source is being used to deliver the benefits of SOA and open source to the enterprise. There are many custom Enterprise Service Bus deployments waiting to be upgraded to a simple,... Nov. 9, 2007 08:15 AM EST Reads: 9,388 |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux, with integrated virtualization, provides a seamless deployment solution bridging both on-premise and cloud computing. As part of this solution, Red Hat Network offers a common set of management and automation tools across on-premises deployments and the Amazon... Nov. 8, 2007 06:00 PM EST Reads: 13,739 |
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