Latest News from Red Hat News Desk

SYS-CON White Paper: Velociti Partners Customer Survey

Fri, 11 Sep 2009 17:30:00 EDT

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.

Red Hat Targets Cloud Computing with Next Generation Java Platform

Wed, 02 Sep 2009 17:30:00 EDT

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.

Red Hat Announces Enhancements to Enterprise Linux Management Solutions

Wed, 02 Sep 2009 12:15:00 EDT

Red Hat has announced the availability of Red Hat Network Satellite 5.3, the latest version of Red Hat's on-premises systems management solution that provides software updates, configuration management, provisioning and monitoring across both physical and virtual Red Hat Enterprise Linux servers. Red Hat Network Satellite 5.3 is globally available today and is automatically delivered to customers with a Red Hat Network Satellite subscription. The availability of Red Hat Network Satellite 5.3 marks the first release based off of the open source project Spacewalk, announced in June 2008.

Red Hat Launches Catalyst Program

Tue, 01 Sep 2009 08:34:00 EDT

Red Hat has announced the North American launch of the Red Hat Catalyst Program, aimed at leveraging all of Red Hat's routes to market through a collaborative and innovative marketing program that plans to include an interactive web portal to facilitate the formation of a community around Red Hat's entire partner ecosystem.

Red Hat Announces Finalists in Third Annual Innovation Awards

Wed, 05 Aug 2009 15:15:00 EDT

Red Hat announced the award-winning finalists in its third annual Red Hat and JBoss Innovation Awards. The awards are designed to recognize the outstanding use, innovation and extension of Red Hat and JBoss solutions by Red Hat customers, partners and the open source community. From the finalists, one Red Hat Innovator of the Year and one JBoss Innovator of the Year will each be selected and announced during the Red Hat Summit and JBoss World, co-located this year in Chicago, Sept. 1-4, 2009.

The Fedora Project Awards 2009 Scholarship

Wed, 05 Aug 2009 08:04:00 EDT

Fedora and Red Hat are committed to helping future talent in the technology and computer science field gain hands-on experience with open source software. The Fedora Scholarship serves as a way to enable up-and-coming contributors to work within free and open source software communities throughout their college years and beyond. As a Fedora contributor, McLean has served as both a software developer and packager. He has made numerous contributions to Fedora and the open source community including his work with the Fedora Robotics Special Interest Group to develop a demonstration program for the robotics simulation and development software Player/Stage/Gazebo.

Red Hat CEO to Present at Government IT Forum

Tue, 05 May 2009 14:30:00 EDT

“Considering today’s economic challenges, it’s time to unlock the innovative potential of information technology in Federal government,” said Peter Tseronis, MeriTalk Federal IT on a Budget Forum Co-Chair and Deputy Associate Chief Information Officer at the Department of Energy. “Our program brings government and industry experts together to discuss best practices for meeting these challenges and making the vision of Government 2.0 a reality.”

Red Hat Announces ISV Applications Now Virtualization-Ready

Mon, 23 Feb 2009 12:30:00 EST

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 ISV partners are ensured through an Application Binary Interface (ABI) guarantee that their certified applications are capable of running under Red Hat virtualization technology as a result of Red Hat’s ability to couple the open source operating system Red Hat Enterprise Linux and hypervisor layers.

Red Hat Extends JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform 4.3

Tue, 17 Feb 2009 14:30:00 EST

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 remarked, "As a critical component of the Web 2.0 landscape, portals remain a low-cost gateway for facilitating collaboration, information sharing and interoperable processes. JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform 4.3 includes an enterprise-class set of features required to support a wide range of portal use cases."

Red Hat Announces Open Source Project for JBoss Migrations

Thu, 12 Feb 2009 06:00:00 EST

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 resource center to accelerate the adoption of JBoss Enterprise Middleware. Numerous JBoss solution providers make up the founding Red Hat partners, including: Amentra, a Red Hat company; CityTech, Consilium1, Exadel, Freedom OSS, RivetLogic, Unisys, and Vizuri.

Red Hat Releases JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform 4.3

Thu, 12 Feb 2009 05:00:00 EST

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 availability and clustering and simple, straightforward installation and configuration. New features in JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform 4.3 include:

Smaller Carbon Footprint with Red Hat Mainframe

Thu, 05 Feb 2009 17:00:00 EST

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 has significantly reduced its hardware footprint, power consumption, heat and carbon emissions and costs, including an expected 20 percent cost reduction over the life of the platform.

Red Hat Enterprise MRG 1.1 Released

Thu, 05 Feb 2009 14:55:00 EST

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 production environments. MRG stands for Messaging, Realtime, and Grid. Red Hat Enterprise MRG 1.1 promises improvements in the following areas: Native OFED Infiniband Support and RDMA (Remote Direct Memory Access) help to provide for better Messaging latency ratios and Active-Active clustering is also new in the release.

Acxiom Standardizes its Grid Computing Environment on Red Hat Solutions

Fri, 30 Jan 2009 14:00:00 EST

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’ increasing demands. With a broad ecosystem of certified hardware and software solutions, Red Hat Enterprise Linux enabled Acxiom to make hardware choices independent of the operating system.

Ingres and Red Hat Team Up for Joint Keynote at Open Source Event

Fri, 23 Jan 2009 07:00:00 EST

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-host a keynote with Sacha Labourey, CTO of Red Hat’s JBoss Division entitled “Open Source Stack - a Prudent Choice - Not Only - when the Economy Gets Tough.” The presentation will compare a closed stack platform approach with a business open source-based platform stack approach. Flexibility, transparency, predictability alongside with direct cost implications (upfront and running) will be discussed with practical examples. Berquist and Labourey will outline the benefits for end-user customers, as well as ISVs and system integrators, can achieve from a reliable and scalable open source stack combining operating system, middleware and database and mission critical 24/7 support capabilities. This presentation comes at a crucial time – when the market has dropped to a level the world hasn’t seen for some ten years.

Greg Symon Joins Red Hat as VP and GM of North American Sales

Tue, 13 Jan 2009 11:36:00 EST

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 Red Hat, Symon held various senior sales management and business development positions during a 22-year tenure with Intel Corporation. He most recently served as senior managing director and founder of Intel's Global Software Relations organization within the company's Software Solutions Group. In this role, Symon led the creation and development of the software influencer organization focused on developing and maintaining global relationships with partners, Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) and Operating System Vendors (OSVs) to ensure success with the ecosystem and end-user account engagements.

AMD and Red Hat Demonstrate Live Migration of Virtual Machines

Mon, 10 Nov 2008 08:15:00 EST

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 now, has only been demonstrated across systems based on one vendor’s platforms. The live migration demonstration moves a live VM from an dual socket Intel Xeon DP Quad Core E5420-based system to a system based on the forthcoming 45nm Quad-Core AMD Opteron processor, utilizing Red Hat’s high-performance open source virtualization software.

Red Hat Named "Platinum Sponsor" of SYS-CON's Virtualization and Cloud Computing Conference & Expo

Fri, 31 Oct 2008 18:00:00 EDT

Red Hat is a trusted open source provider. Red Hat offers enterprise customers a long-term plan for building infrastructures on the quality and innovation of open source. Combining open source operating system platform, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, together with applications, management, and Services Oriented Architecture (SOA) solutions, including the JBoss Enterprise Middleware Suite.

Red Hat and the Opening of Virtualization on SYS-CON.TV

Sun, 12 Oct 2008 19:00:00 EDT

Open Source. Open Standards. Open Collaboration. For the past 15 years, Linux has served as the benchmark of a successful global open source project. The impact has been far reaching: today it powers the Internet, a significant portion of the datacenter, is the emerging market choice for the desktop, and soon will likely be on your phone. Over the last 5 years, this open community has turned its attention to virtualization.

Red Hat and Tresys Partner to Deliver Enhanced Linux Security Services

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 15:00:00 EDT

Tresys Technology, a provider of technology and services for customers with high security requirements, and Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE:RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced an agreement to work together to deliver government and enterprise security services to customers. Under the terms of the agreement, Red Hat and Tresys will offer services that include security engineering, secure application development, virtualization security and compliance certification and accreditation support on the Red Hat Enterprise Linux platform.

German Home Savings and Loan Association Relies on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

Mon, 04 Aug 2008 09:20:00 EDT

Red Hat announced that Vereinsbank Victoria Bauspar AG (VVB), a German private home savings and loan association, has implemented SEP sesam running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 to maintain its backup and recovery solution for all database applications in its two parallel data centers. The high-performance solution enhances data transfer rates, speeding the resolution of backups while reducing maintenance and administration efforts.

Red Hat Solutions Deliver Flexibility and Reliability for InfoCamere

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 14:45:00 EDT

Red Hat announced that InfoCamere, an organization responsible for managing the IT systems that connect and secure over 100 Italian Chambers of Commerce, relies on Red Hat and JBoss solutions for flexibility, reliability and ease of use for its mission-critical systems.

Red Hat Settles Patent Claims Against It

Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:45:00 EDT

Red Hat said Wednesday that it had settled patent litigation brought against it two years ago by Firestar Software Inc in what was possibly the very first patent infringement suit ever brought against an open source company. It also turns out that Red Hat was sued by an outfit called DataTern Inc just this past April on another patent. Bank of America, Visa, Wachovia and Delta Air Lines were also named.

Red Hat Offers Enhanced Value to Customers with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2

Fri, 23 May 2008 11:15:00 EDT

Red Hat announced the availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2. With this latest update, subscribers can achieve greater return on their IT investment with new hardware support capabilities, selected new software technologies and numerous quality improvements. And, the certified application environment provided by every Red Hat Enterprise Linux version means that subscribers enjoy the new capabilities provided in release updates without the need to recertify their applications.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Delivers Record-Setting Performance Results with Reuters Market Data System

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 09:00:00 EDT

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 demands of the financial services industry. Together, the combination provides both the lowest mean latency and lowest standard deviation of latency reported with RMDS.

Florida Hospital Enhances IT Performance and Patient Care with Red Hat Solutions

Mon, 10 Mar 2008 12:30:00 EDT

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.

Seam Remoting - JBoss Seam and Enterprise Rich Internet Applications

Fri, 25 Jan 2008 09:45:00 EST

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 client-side JavaScript code that interacts asynchronously with Seam components, whether they are EJBs or POJOs. It will also describe advanced features of Seam Remoting such as subscribing to a JMS topic from a web page via AJAX.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Wins SearchEnterpriseLinux.com "Product of the Year" Gold in Linux Server Distributions Category for Leadership in Virtualization

Tue, 22 Jan 2008 08:00:00 EST

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 Group.

Web Hosting Solutions Firm, NetBenefit, Debuts Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Suite

Mon, 14 Jan 2008 10:00:00 EST

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 for organizations that demand continuously available websites or online applications.

Fratelli Carli Adopts Red Hat's Open Source Application Platform

Wed, 19 Dec 2007 12:00:00 EST

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.

Transitive Broadens Release of QuickTransit Enterprise Product Line With Selection of Red Hat Exchange as Distribution Channel

Wed, 19 Dec 2007 12:00:00 EST

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, delivered through Red Hat Network, and backed by Red Hat as the single point of contact for support.

Likewise Cross-Platform Authentication Open Sourced; Red Hat & Canonical Sign On

Sun, 09 Dec 2007 22:00:00 EST

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. Likewise suggests that organizations replace their homegrown and DIY solutions with its Likewise Open enterprise authentication and it has posted the source code so Linux vendors can integrate it into upcoming versions of their operating systems. Red Hat and Canonical, the Ubuntu company, are supporting it and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is going with it.

Red Hat Betas MRG

Sun, 09 Dec 2007 18:45:00 EST

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 combination. It's thinking of Java, Solaris and Microsoft's .NET. The final product is scheduled for availability early next year. The 'M' is the messaging from the open source ampq.org project that Red Hat helped start. It thinks it's a disruptive technology and will become the standard messaging platform. At least it's working on it. It claims it's seeing 100x performance improvements over proprietary solutions.

Red Hat-Amazon Beta Starts

Fri, 30 Nov 2007 13:45:00 EST

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 certified apps on the thing under the Red Hat Network management service if they had a mind to. One buys whatever capacity one needs for $19 a month per account plus 21-94 cents an hour depending on the size of the instance plus bandwidth and storage fees.

EsSalud Centralizes IT Systems with Red Hat Solutions

Thu, 29 Nov 2007 10:00:00 EST

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 centralize the information of its national assistance centers, the company said.

OpenService Joins Red Hat ISV Partner Program to Assure Highest Levels of Reliability and Security for InfoCenter Suite on Linux Platforms

Mon, 26 Nov 2007 09:00:00 EST

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 AS4 and the participation of OpenService in the Independent Software Vendor (ISV) Partner Program sponsored by Red Hat.

Red Hat CTO Keynoting Today on The Future of the Virtual Enterprise

Tue, 13 Nov 2007 11:45:00 EST

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). An IT industry luminary, Stevens is credited with having pioneered new technologies that contributed to the rise of Linux as an industry-standard operating platform.

Red Hat's CTO Keynotes Virtualization Conference & Expo

Tue, 13 Nov 2007 11:15:00 EST

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 entitled 'The Future of the Virtual Enterprise' at SYS-CON Events' Virtualization Conference & Expo 2007 West in San Francisco.

Red Hat Releases RHEL 5.1 with Integrated Virtualization

Fri, 09 Nov 2007 09:45:00 EST

'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 Raleigh, NC-based company this week released Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.1 , with integrated virtualization.

Red Hat to Present "Open Source SOA" Session at SOA World Conference & Expo

Fri, 09 Nov 2007 08:15:00 EST

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, open and affordable SOA integration platform. This session explores where open source is getting the most traction in SOA deployments with a focus on ESB and illustrates this by describing some of the customer SOA solutions the speaker sees at Red Hat.

Red Hat CTO To Keynote at Virtualization Conference & Expo

Fri, 09 Nov 2007 08:15:00 EST

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 developments have lead to a plethora of solutions, with the attendant confusion that typically surrounds fast moving technologies. In this presentation Mr Stevens will outline current trends in virtualization technologies and examine their potential impact on, and benefits for, future Enterprise IT deployments. Topics will include tradeoffs between open source and proprietary solutions, hardware integration efforts, deployment models, and long-term, high-volume serviceability/security considerations.

Red Hat Offers Linux with Virtualization as SaaS

Thu, 08 Nov 2007 18:00:00 EST

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 EC2 cloud computing environment. Red Hat will provide technical support and maintenance of Red Hat Enterprise Linux on Amazon EC2. This is the first commercially supported operating system available on Amazon EC2.

Red Hat Changes Marketing Chief

Mon, 01 Oct 2007 02:45:00 EDT

Those swinging doors that grace the office of the head of marketing at Red Hat have slapped another exiting executive in the fanny. Old-time Unix veteran Tim Yeaton, senior VP of marketing, has been replaced by Michael Chen, seconded over from Red Hat China, where he was general manager, to be VP of corporate marketing. He reports to CEO Matthew Szulik and will work out of Red Hat's headquarters in North Carolina.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Takes to the Skies

Thu, 20 Sep 2007 05:00:00 EDT

Spanair is utilizing Red Hat Enterprise Linux in two of the company's major projects. The airline is running its Carmen crew optimizer software, providing the airline with settings for crew managing, fleet scheduling and timetables, on three Red Hat Enterprise Linux servers. The Red Hat platform is also used in several of the airline's optimization stations that receive information provided by the central server to execute a number of processes. Additionally, Spanair runs its Oracle 10g R2 database server on HP Proliant servers on Red Hat Enterprise Linux to host its data warehouse.

Red Hat Delivers Second-Generation SOA Foundation with JBoss ESB 4.2

Fri, 14 Sep 2007 21:15:00 EDT

Red Hat, in conjunction with the open source community, released JBoss ESB 4.2, a JBoss.org open source project. JBoss ESB 4.2 intermediates interactions between enterprise applications, business services, business components, and middleware to integrate and enable the automation of business processes.

Red Hat Gets Enterprise Open Source SOA IP Donation

Tue, 31 Jul 2007 13:45:00 EDT

SOA expert Thomas Erl, the founder of SOA Systems and editor of the Prentice Hall series of books on SOA, has made over the patent rights to the design for a unique, platform-agnostic service-modeling tool to Red Hat for its JBoss Enterprise SOA platform. Red Hat is apparently going to have to build the thing. It's supposed to make it easier for developers to collaborate and conceptualize, define and manage services without getting into the implementation details. Erl is anxious to evangelize SOA, which is why he gave the IP to Red Hat.

Red Hat Beats the Street by a Penny

Thu, 12 Jul 2007 15:00:00 EDT

Red Hat earned $16.2 million, or eight cents a share, up 17% year-over-year on revenues of $118.9 million, up 42% year-over-year and up 7% sequentially in its first fiscal quarter ended May 31. On a non-GAAP basis it made 16 cents. Wall Street was thinking 15 cents on $117 million but it wasn't happy with the quarterly non-GAAP cash flow of $52.25 million, which may explain why the stock dipped Wednesday after-hours with the conference call and didn't come back.

Red Hat's JBoss Offers Simple, Open SOA

Wed, 04 Jul 2007 12:15:00 EDT

JBoss Portal has had user personalization of individual portlets since the JBoss Portal 2.0. In JBoss Portal 2.6, we?ve improved the granularity of personalization and ability to further personalize the user experience. Personal user dashboards bring personalized themes, layouts and portlet content, increasing the productivity of specific roles and people within a business process or collaboration effort.

Red Hat & Symantec Pair

Mon, 11 Jun 2007 13:30:00 EDT

Red Hat and Symantec have wheeled out what they call secure server bundles for SMBs, either Red Hat Enterprise Linux or the Red Hat Application Stack combined with Symantec Critical System Protection for both pre-configured and custom-configured behavior-based host protection and against application threats running in the server.

Red Hat & Sybase Collaborate on Appliance

Thu, 24 May 2007 09:45:00 EDT

Red Hat and Sybase are collaborating on a database appliance with integrated virtualization, a first. The virtualization is supposed to provide on-demand resource management and increased database performance. It'll use Sybase's Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) and according to the Standish Group offer a solution that's 15%-37% cheaper than alternative solutions.