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By Red Hat News Desk  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 Old-time Unix veteran Tim Yeaton, senior VP of marketing, has been replaced by Michael Chen, seconded over from Red Hat China, where he was general manage... Oct. 1, 2007 02:45 AM EDT Reads: 10,490 Replies: 1 | By Red Hat News Desk  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 Ha... Sep. 20, 2007 05:00 AM EDT Reads: 12,300 | By Red Hat News Desk  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 bu... Sep. 14, 2007 09:15 PM EDT Reads: 11,571 | By Red Hat News Desk 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... Jul. 31, 2007 01:45 PM EDT Reads: 11,228 Replies: 1 | By Red Hat News Desk 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 ... Jul. 12, 2007 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 9,036 | By Red Hat News Desk 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 po... Jul. 4, 2007 12:15 PM EDT Reads: 16,619 Replies: 1 | By Red Hat News Desk 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 again... Jun. 11, 2007 01:30 PM EDT Reads: 9,860 | By Red Hat News Desk 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 Sta... May. 24, 2007 09:45 AM EDT Reads: 11,447 Replies: 1 | By Red Hat News Desk There are now three sets of what Red Hat calls Liberation fonts: Sans (an open source substitute for Arial, Albany, Helvetica, Nimbus Sans L and Bitstream Vera Sans), Serif (a substitute for Times New Roman, Thorndale, Nimbus Roman and Bitstream Vera Serif) and Mono (a substitute for C... May. 23, 2007 12:15 AM EDT Reads: 10,713 Replies: 1 | By Red Hat News Desk EMC says its Symmetrix, Clariion, Celerra and Invista platforms have completed their interoperability qualification with Red Hat Linux. It is now going to start a Cooperative Resolution Center to support joint customers through an enhanced agreement to exchange support readiness traini... May. 21, 2007 09:15 PM EDT Reads: 7,236 Replies: 1 | By Red Hat News Desk Red Hat made some guttural, almost inarticulate, awfully confusing noises Wednesday from its user-cum-analyst meeting in San Diego when it tried to say that it's finally going to play the desktop card. Red Hat has always been rather, oh, comme ci comme ca about Linux on the desktop, pu... May. 13, 2007 09:00 PM EDT Reads: 10,580 Replies: 1 | By Red Hat News Desk 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 | By Red Hat News Desk Under a joint program with Intel, Red Hat is going to deliver a Red Hat-branded software platform that supports desktop PCs imbued with Intel's vPro processor technology. It's supposed to bring hardware-assisted virtualization to the business desktop, which in turn is supposed to offer... May. 12, 2007 11:30 AM EDT Reads: 6,986 Replies: 1 | By Red Hat News Desk  Red Hat is buying a privately held proprietary software company called Metamatrix Inc that's backed by Kleiner Perkins, the Invus Group and Integral Capital Partners on undisclosed terms. Red Hat senior VP of enterprise solutions Tim Yeaton said it will supply the piece that was missin... Apr. 30, 2007 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 17,845 Replies: 1 | By Red Hat News Desk  'With many enterprises spending as much as 70% of their IT budget on maintaining stove-piped legacy applications while a backlog of projects continues piling up, it's clear that proprietary 'application infrastructure vendors have failed to deliver relief for the CIO,' said Tim Yeaton,... Apr. 28, 2007 01:15 PM EDT Reads: 14,787 Replies: 1 | By Red Hat News Desk  Red Hat is presenting the next high value migration opportunity, the company says, which it believes will deliver even greater cost savings to enterprises: moving siloed legacy applications to JBoss Enterprise Middleware. 'With many enterprises spending as much as 70% of their IT budge... Apr. 24, 2007 09:45 PM EDT Reads: 14,199 Replies: 1 | By Red Hat News Desk Vitria Technology, Inc., a provider of business process integration solutions, and Red Hat, an open source solutions provider, have announced a collaboration to accelerate service-oriented architecture (SOA) solutions to the marketplace. Apr. 24, 2007 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 10,353 | By Red Hat News Desk Red Hat and VMware announced an expanded relationship to support customers and ISVs who are deploying virtualization today. As part of the relationship, Red Hat and VMware are delivering certification and focusing on open, community-based interoperability between Red Hat and VMware sol... Apr. 9, 2007 03:15 PM EDT Reads: 18,286 Replies: 1 | By Red Hat News Desk 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. Apr. 9, 2007 02:45 PM EDT Reads: 9,624 Replies: 1 | By Red Hat News Desk Red Hat says 'one of the largest shifts in IT spending' is going on and that it's benefiting but apparently the shift's contribution to Red Hat's coffers wasn't that big in the company's fiscal fourth quarter that ended in February. It came up short of its own revenue guidance of $112 ... Apr. 3, 2007 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 11,576 Replies: 1 | By Red Hat News Desk Red Hat Wednesday pushed out Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (RHEL 5), the first major update of its operating system in a couple of years, a rev on which much hangs considering the threatening noises coming from the direction of Oracle, Sun, Microsoft-Novell and Ubuntu. That being so we're... Mar. 19, 2007 08:30 PM EDT Reads: 16,070 Replies: 1 | By Red Hat News Desk 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. Feb. 26, 2007 06:30 PM EST Reads: 14,045 Replies: 1 | By Red Hat News Desk Red Hat says the Swedish Armed Forces, which hasn't taken the field since the early eighteenth century, is going to join the Red Hat-Microsoft skirmish and migrate its servers from NT to Red Hat Linux for security reasons. Red Hat has so far taken almost 200 servers and is running appl... Feb. 10, 2007 03:00 PM EST Reads: 11,661 Replies: 1 | By Red Hat News Desk Red Hat is going to sink about $1.7 million in a new open source R&D center in Brno in the Czech Republic, where Sun, Microsoft and Skype also have R&D centers. Apparently it will benefit from the favorable treatment the country now accords R&D-related expenses. The center, located nea... Jan. 14, 2007 01:45 PM EST Reads: 10,971 Replies: 2 | By Red Hat News Desk It's looking increasingly unlikely that JBoss founder Marc Fleury will be returning to Red Hat from that extended paternity leave he's been on. Apparently the $150 million he made selling JBoss to Red Hat hasn't made him very happy. Over the holidays CNET came by an e-mail that Fleury... Jan. 12, 2007 12:30 PM EST Reads: 16,233 Replies: 3 | By Red Hat News Desk 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 | By Red Hat News Desk Red Hat, provider of open source solutions, announced that RLPTechnologies has achieved success using a combination of Red Hat and JBoss solutions. Running a grid computing environment on Red Hat Enterprise Linux and JBoss Enterprise Middleware Suite for a SOA platform, RLPTechnologies... Dec. 11, 2006 08:00 AM EST Reads: 7,965 Replies: 2 | By Red Hat News Desk Red Hat, provider of open source solutions, announced that the company has experienced strong growth in Spain in recent months, with a substantial increase in the number of customers that rely on its open source technology. Companies from multiple sectors, including energy, insurance, ... Dec. 6, 2006 11:00 PM EST Reads: 3,331 Replies: 1 | By Red Hat News Desk Red Hat announced their strategic partnership with Satyam, a global consulting and IT services provider, to provide innovative and cost effective open source solutions for customers. Red Hat and Satyam are also planning to set up a Center of Excellence (COE) and Open Source Lab in Bang... Dec. 5, 2006 05:00 AM EST Reads: 6,214 Replies: 2 | By Red Hat News Desk Red Hat announced that European Open Source deployment specialist, Sirius Corporation, has become a Red Hat Advanced Partner. By partnering with Sirius Corporation, Red Hat is further extending its outreach to organisations looking to implement integrated, enterprise-class Open Source ... Dec. 4, 2006 01:15 PM EST Reads: 6,035 Replies: 2 | By Red Hat News Desk Red Hat has released its second Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5 beta, pushing it our earlier than expected in an apparent response to Microsoft and Novell having smoked the peace pipe. Nov. 24, 2006 08:15 AM EST Reads: 11,031 | By Red Hat News Desk  While assuring a journalist this week that he is not the one 'wagging the dog' any longer - a reference to the $400M sale of JBoss to Red Hat - JBoss founder Marc Fleury, who is now 'Senior Vice President and General Manager of the JBoss division, Red Hat,' expressed frustration at Red... Nov. 23, 2006 03:30 AM EST Reads: 16,529 Replies: 1 | By Red Hat News Desk Red Hat announced that strategic members of Red Hat's broad ecosystem of independent software vendors (ISVs) are already supporting and testing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Beta 2 to prepare for Red Hat's next major subscription milestone. These software partners have begun testing to en... Nov. 23, 2006 12:00 AM EST Reads: 8,161 Replies: 1 | By Red Hat News Desk 'We believe that listing on the New York Stock Exchange will increase Red Hat's visibility among investors, reduce trading volatility and offer more efficient pricing,' said Charlie Peters, CFO of Red Hat, Inc. as the company announced that it has it filed an application to list its co... Nov. 21, 2006 07:45 PM EST Reads: 8,464 Replies: 3 | By Red Hat News Desk Red Hat delivered more on the vision of Open Source Architecture by announcing plans to combine a virtualized operating system and a full set of building blocks for building service-oriented (SOA) solutions to provide a flexible, low-cost foundation for enterprise computing. Red Hat be... Nov. 20, 2006 11:00 PM EST Reads: 5,836 Replies: 1 | By Red Hat News Desk The city of Vienna is going with Red Hat on its file servers and Oracle database servers, some of which are evidently going to become PostgreSQL databases. Nov. 19, 2006 08:45 AM EST Reads: 9,877 Replies: 2 | By Red Hat News Desk Red Hat, provider of open source solutions, announced that it has filed an application to list its common stock on the New York Stock Exchange. Upon approval of its application, the Company anticipates that its shares of common stock will begin trading on the NYSE on December 12, 2006,... Nov. 18, 2006 05:00 AM EST Reads: 7,000 Replies: 1 | By Red Hat News Desk Red Hat announced the availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Beta 2. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, to be released in early 2007, will provide the latest open source technologies for improved performance, security and flexibility. With a continued focus on technologies designed to dri... Nov. 18, 2006 04:00 AM EST Reads: 9,526 Replies: 1 | By Red Hat News Desk Red Hat and Nokia announced that the two companies have agreed to collaborate on carrier-grade telecommunications solutions, allowing Nokia to deliver carrier-grade solutions that meet the high performance and availability requirements demanded by operators. Nov. 15, 2006 10:00 AM EST Reads: 7,473 Replies: 2 | By Red Hat News Desk Red Hat announced that the city of Vienna has selected Red Hat Enterprise Linux as the platform of choice for its servers. Austria's capital is using the operating system for both mission-critical applications such as database servers and other systems including file servers. The decis... Nov. 15, 2006 05:00 AM EST Reads: 7,432 Replies: 1 |
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Red Hat News Desk trawls the world's news information sources and brings you timely updates on its flagship Red Hat Enterprise Linux as well as the company's other product lines including database, content, and collaboration management applications; server and embedded operating systems; and software - including its most recent virtualization offerings.
