Red Hat News Desk

Red Hat has delivered on its JBoss Open Choice strategy and announced availability of JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 5.0. This core middleware product represents next generation Java application platforms and will be integral to Red Hat's cloud foundation. JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 5.0 supports developer choice and aims to provide a consistent foundation to support the wide variety of Java programming and component models, including Plain Old Java Objects, Java EE, Spring Framework, OSGi, Google Web Toolkit and a variety of Rich Internet Application frameworks and dynamic languages. Additionally, the platform spans the growing number of operating models, from traditional on-premise lightweight Java applications, to newer internal and external cloud-bas... (more)

SYS-CON White Paper: Velociti Partners Customer Survey

JBoss' expert technical support services are clearly acknowledged by its client base as well as the comprehensive nature by which their service is unsurpassed. Every category that was evaluated resulted in JBoss rating higher than the competition. More important, JBoss' performance has yielded unprecedented customer loyalty as evidenced by its favorable quantitative loyalty rating.   C... (more)

Red Hat to Deploy "NX" vs Viruses

Transmeta, Intel, and AMD have already started supporting "No eXecute" (NX) technology in their next core revisions, and now comes an announcement from Red Hat that it will be adding NX support to Linux. Specifically, Red Hat has just announced the availability of the following kernel patch, which makes use of the "NX" x86 feature pioneered in AMD64 CPUs. Windows support for NX has also be... (more)

Cashing In On Linux: CEO Matthew Szulik To Sell 27% of His Shares in Linux Market Leader, Red Hat

Red Hat announced this week that, "for personal tax, asset diversification and financial planning reasons," its CEO, Matthew Szulik (pictured), plans in January 2006 to enter into a Rule 10b5-1 stock trading plan with respect to the Company's common stock and also to engage in transactions in the Company's common stock outside of the stock trading plan. Sales effected outside of the stock ... (more)

Red Hat Drops Consumer Linux, Sponsors Community Led Fedora Project

Red Hat Network has shocked many users of its Linux distro by informing them 1) that it will discontinue maintenance on Red Hat Linux 7.x and 8.0 by the end of 2003; 2) that it will discontinue maintenance on Red Hat 9.0 by the end of April, 2004; and 3) that it does not plan to release another product in the Red Hat Linux line. Here is the full text of an e-mail sent out this morning, cou... (more)