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IBM has reportedly stated that it has consulted with more than 500 companies who currently use Unix in their enterprise IT strategy about how to migrate to a Lintel platform that integrates Red Hat Linux with Intel-based IBM systems. The consultations presumably target major Unix vendors HP and Sun Microsystems. With the first Red Hat Summit coming up June 1-3 in New Orleans, it's interesting to note that the major sponsors are HP, IBM, Intel, AMD, and Dell. Red Hat has been available on Big Blue's server lines, and Red Hat  has worked with IBM's open source development team. The IBM/Red Hat revelation may just be an indicator that the doughty Raleigh, NC Red Hat is doing all it can to propagate its open-source philosophy in general and its own products in particular, wherever customers may be found. It has been working with HP, for example, in a European road show fo... (more)

Red Hat Cuddles with VMware

Red Hat, which is about to put Xen in its operating system, expanded its alliance with VMware Wednesday, promising interoperability and certification. They're supposed to collaborate on virtual machine disk formats, paravirtualization and management APIs. The Red Hat Application Stack virtual appliance is now certified and available in VMDK format in the VMware Virtual Appliance Marketplace for pre-production evaluation. The pair plans to deliver channel bundles of RHEL and the Red Hat Application Stack paired up with VMware Infrastructure and VMware Server. Copyright Client/Serv... (more)

SOA Software Extends Red Hat's Governance

SOA Software is partnering with Red Hat "to accelerate simple, open, and affordable SOA solutions for the enterprise," according to the companies. The move signals the rapid emergence of open source solutions in a competitive SOA market that has been dominated by traditional, proprietary platform vendors. Now, enterprises deploying SOA applications on Red Hat's JBoss Enterprise Middleware can take advantage of SOA Software's Service Manager and WorkBench products for critical governance, security, management, and mediation functions. JBoss Enterprise Middleware is an extensible s... (more)

Red Hat Offers Linux with Virtualization as SaaS

Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), announced the beta availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), a web service that provides resizeable compute capacity in the cloud. This collaboration makes all the capabilities of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, including the Red Hat Network management service, world-class technical support and over 3,400 certified applications, available to customers on Amazon's proven network infrastructure and datacenters. The combination of Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Amazon EC2 changes the economics of computing by allowing custome... (more)

Red Hat Outlines Linux Vision

Red Hat has announced its primary technology plans for 2006 through 2007. The company's core focus will be to continue to reduce IT infrastructure costs for customers. Red Hat sees virtualization, stateless Linux and developer enablement as the key levers to reduce costs by increasing organizational efficiency and agility. "Deploying Linux two years ago was a sound technical decision for many organizations. Performance was better than proprietary solutions, and systems were very reliable and secure. We are proud to have achieved those important milestones for open source consume... (more)