By Red Hat News Desk Red Hat announced this week that Red Hat Enterprise Linux subscribers were less susceptible to network security holes than users of other platforms according to a recently published report by the SANS Institute. The report identified the top twenty Internet security vulnerabilities. Of... Aug. 2, 2005 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 8,394 Replies: 1 |
By Red Hat News Desk  Arkeia Corporation has recently announced Red Hat Ready certification as well as support of Macintosh OS X Tiger. The 'Red Hat Ready' Independent Software Vendor (ISV) application program allows vendors to test and qualify their software applications on Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Jul. 27, 2005 06:45 PM EDT Reads: 7,359 Replies: 2 |
By Red Hat News Desk  The European Parliament has rejected the Computer-Implemented Inventions directive, the so-called 'software patent' directive. Red Hat and Sun Microsystems combined efforts with the Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure (FFII) to bring about this victory for those who value ... Jul. 14, 2005 12:15 PM EDT Reads: 5,039 Replies: 1 |
By Red Hat News Desk RedHat has issued five updates to Enterprise Linux and Fedora, addressing a range of vulnerabilities. One of the fixes addressed a 'moderately critical' problem, while the rest addressed problems that were either less critical or not critical. Jun. 18, 2005 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,266 |
By Red Hat News Desk The first Red Hat Summit opened on June 1 at the sprawling Hilton Riverside in New Orleans. About 700 customers and industry executives are in attendance, as the company announced its Fedora Directory Server. Jun. 2, 2005 10:30 AM EDT Reads: 12,357 |
By Red Hat News Desk Linux vendor Red Hat is offering seven different tracks at its first customer summit in New Orleans. About 700 attendees can choose from highly technical to more business-oriented sessions. Jun. 1, 2005 07:00 PM EDT Reads: 7,081 |
By Red Hat News Desk A group of five companies--IBM, Oracle, Nokia, RealNetworks, and Red Hat--have been given the green light to appeal the European Commission's anti-trust case against Microsoft. This is the latest development of Redmond's ongoing battles with the U.S. Justice Department (now settled) a... May. 24, 2005 07:00 PM EDT Reads: 5,183 |
By Red Hat News Desk IBM and Red Hat Software are reportedly offering free consultations to Solaris and HP-UX customers, about how to develop a migration strategy to a Lintel platform that includes Red Hat Linux and Intel-based IBM hardware. With Red Hat's first major Summit coming up in early June, it wil... May. 23, 2005 07:00 PM EDT Reads: 10,454 |
By Red Hat News Desk 'Heading into fiscal 2006, we feel optimistic about our business opportunity based on the strength of the market and our competitive position, and the growing visibility of our recurring revenue model,' said Red Hat's CFO Charlie Peters as RH yesterday announced its financial results f... Apr. 1, 2005 12:00 AM EST Reads: 5,844 |
By Red Hat News Desk Mark Webbink, Red Hat's general counsel since 2000, has issued a letter to the press in response to Sun's OpenSolaris-related code release of its diagnostic DTrace application. Jan. 28, 2005 12:00 AM EST Reads: 13,846 Replies: 3 |
By Red Hat News Desk Red Hat has teamed with IBM to develop a Linux ISV, Certification Support Programme. Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) looking to have their products certified will he helped along the way, as part of this initiative. Dec. 10, 2004 12:00 AM EST Reads: 126 |
By Red Hat News Desk 'We see a great future for Red Hat in China. Open Source software, and particularly Linux, has a critical role to play both in advancing the development of China's rapidly growing software industry and in creating the best information infrastructure for China's globally competitive ent... Nov. 12, 2004 12:00 AM EST Reads: 5,862 Replies: 5 |
By Red Hat News Desk Dell has broken its exclusive working relationship with Linux developer Red Hat. Dell and Novell announced an initiative involving Dell offering SUSE Linux on its single- and dual-processor line of servers. Dell will continue offering Red Hat's Linux. Nov. 6, 2004 12:00 AM EST Reads: 8,499 Replies: 1 |
By Red Hat News Desk Red Hat started its analyst day in New York yesterday with a bang, announcing it has acquired for $20.5 million the Netscape server software products that AOL acquired when it purchased Netscape's software in 1998. Red Hat will incorporate the browser into its current showcase of produ... Oct. 1, 2004 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 10,651 |
By Red Hat News Desk Red Hat's vice president for open source affairs, Michael Tiemann, has said Sun needs to prove its devotion to the open source community, by releasing Java. According to Tiemann, the move is needed to stop Microsoft's .NET from advancing. Open sourced Java, he believes, will accelerate... Sep. 28, 2004 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 14,349 Replies: 2 |
By Red Hat News Desk Cybernet System's NetMAX Professional 5.0 is designed to offer reapid deployment of enterprise-grade servers for companies who want solutions that do not want to be bogged down with Linux coding. NetMAX offers point-and-click solutions for server management. Sep. 14, 2004 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 134 |
By Red Hat News Desk Two security flaws have been recognized by major Linux vendors that can lead to execution of malicious code or archives. Red Hat discovered a flaw in compression utility LHA, they have identified three security vulnerabilities in the LHA bug alone. The other bug, according to Danish se... Sep. 12, 2004 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 5,599 |
By Red Hat News Desk 'Headlines like this...really drive me nuts,' writes Sun's president and COO Jonathan Schwartz in his most recent blog. He is referring to the Forbes Magazine headline on September 1: 'Sun Micro Still A Potential Threat To Linux.' Not so, Schwartz thunders, using his deliberately provo... Sep. 5, 2004 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 28,413 Replies: 12 |
By Red Hat News Desk Red Hat, the world's largest distributor of Linux, has sent what its CEO Matthew Szulik calls 'a very strong message to investors and customers' by appointing Charles E. Peters Jr. as its new chief financial officer to replace Kevin Thompson - Peters most recently served as CFO of Burl... Sep. 2, 2004 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,940 |
By Red Hat News Desk Open-source vendor Red Hat is expected to announce, at the LinuxWorld conference in San Francisco today, subscription-service Java. Aug. 3, 2004 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 18,458 Replies: 1 |
By Red Hat News Desk The release version of the third quarterly update of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, which is scheduled to go out by the end of August, will include the Evolution Connector for Microsoft Exchange Server 2000/2003 open-source code from the Ximian division of Novell. Jul. 26, 2004 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 10,610 |
By Red Hat News Desk Linux vendor Red Hat has made its first move beyond its core OS business: it is now also entering the storage software market. The first product is a new storage solution called the Red Hat Global File System (GFS). Jun. 26, 2004 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 10,909 |
By Red Hat News Desk  First chipmakers like Transmeta and AMD say they are working to make their microprocessors capable of protecting computers from virus and worm attacks, now Red Hat joins in - based on a prototype from Intel - and will start incorporating 'No eXecute' (NX) to help prevent buffer overflo... Jun. 7, 2004 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 20,779 |
By Red Hat News Desk During a press conference Tuesday in London, Red Hat announced its long-term client strategy, and described how the Red Hat Desktop will help achieve the company's goals. Matthew Szulik, Red Hat chairman and CEO, explained that Red Hat's client strategy was forged from the need for cho... May. 5, 2004 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 14,685 Replies: 5 |
By Red Hat News Desk 'Security certifications and compliance with standards are top priorities for Red Hat and are key drivers of innovation,' noted Paul Cormier, executive vice president of Engineering at Red Hat. 'We are committed to industry standards and will continue to drive acceptance and adherence ... May. 3, 2004 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 15,935 |
By Red Hat News Desk  Red Hat's Matthew Szulik sets off on a 3-day trip to India next week. Will he be spending any of the $600 million war chest that Red Hat announced on Monday? Jan. 14, 2004 12:00 AM EST Reads: 17,012 |
By Red Hat News Desk The VP of an IT company, who identifies himself as a very satisfied Red Hat 7.2 user, has written a piece explaining that nonetheless the Red Hat Network pricing point is way out of line for his company. Dec. 29, 2003 12:00 AM EST Reads: 10,511 Replies: 15 |
By Red Hat News Desk In a recent interview Red Hat's Manager of Community Relations, Jeremy Hogan, has been offering his views on UserLinux and on Bruce Perens's recent comments about the difficulty of turning a Linux distro into a profit center. Dec. 6, 2003 12:00 AM EST Reads: 15,052 |
By Red Hat News Desk Red Hat's Fedora Project has run into some trouble. Seems that its attempt to trademark 'Fedora' is meeting with opposition from an unlikely direction: Cornell University. Nov. 22, 2003 12:00 AM EST Reads: 11,204 Replies: 5 |
By Red Hat News Desk Red Hat has launched an educational program - SUSE LINUX is following suit. Nov. 17, 2003 12:00 AM EST Reads: 7,612 |
By Red Hat News Desk From next year, users of any enterprise-level Linux distro with the Red Hat name on it will need to pay for it. Nov. 3, 2003 12:00 AM EST Reads: 54,906 Replies: 102 |
By Red Hat News Desk Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 is now available, supporting more IT deployments than ever before and spanning seven hardware architectures. Oct. 22, 2003 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 10,380 |
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