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. Vitria will offer Red Hat’s open sou... (more)

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 VMw... (more)

SOA Software is partnering with Red Hat "to accelerate simple, open, and affordable SOA solutions for the enterprise," according to the companies. The move signals the rapid emergence of open source solutions in a competitive SOA market that has been dominated by traditional, pro... (more)

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... (more)

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... (more)

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. The Red Hat Application ... (more)

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 runnin... (more)

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, locat... (more)

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. (He's officially due to return from paternity leave in mid-March.) Apparently the $150 million he made selling JBoss to Red Hat hasn't mad... (more)

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 retu... (more)

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 Service-Oriented Archit... (more)

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, insuran... (more)

Red Hat announced their strategic partnership with Satyam, the leading 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 So... (more)

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 S... (more)

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. The beta has Xen virtualization coupled with clustering support, something Novell has been ou... (more)

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 ... (more)

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... (more)

"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... (more)

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 ... (more)

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. Vienna, which has been a Linux user since the early 1990s, is apparently switching from FreeBSD and AIX. Red Hat says it has... (more)