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"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,... (more)

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 s... (more)

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 sp... (more)

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, includin... (more)

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 Old-time Unix veteran Tim Yeaton, senior VP of marketing, has been replaced by Michael Chen, seconded over from Red Hat China, where he was general ... (more)

Spanair, one of the largest air carriers in Spain, has selected Red Hat Enterprise Linux as the platform of choice for several of its most important recent IT initiatives. Spanair is utilizing Red Hat Enterprise Linux in two of the company's major projects. The airline is running... (more)

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... (more)

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 go... (more)

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 millio... (more)

JBoss Portal 2.6 builds on the JBoss open source tradition of collaboration with users, customers and developer community, simplifying user interaction and participation in service-oriented-architecture-enabled business processes, according to the company. Now, JBoss Portal conti... (more)

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... (more)

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 t... (more)

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... (more)

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 ... (more)

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 deskt... (more)

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 experimen... (more)

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... (more)

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. View Craig Muzilla of MetaMatrix with Sean Rhody, Tech Chair of SOA World Conference d... (more)

Red Hat has rolled out its middleware strategy, including an announcement to buy MetMatrix and the introduction of new JBoss offerings. “With many enterprises spending as much as 70% of their IT budget on maintaining stove-piped legacy applications while a backlog of projects con... (more)

Red Hat has signed a definitive agreement to acquire the business of MetaMatrix, a leader in data management and integration software. This market is estimated to reach $1.3B in 2007 according to Forrester Research. The consummation of the transaction is subject to the satisfacti... (more)