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,... (more)

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 ... (more)

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. Nokia's Networks Busi... (more)

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... (more)

Red Hat RHAT announced its flagship events for 2007, including the Red Hat Summit 2007, JBoss World 2007 and FUDCON 2007. Red Hat is designing these events to encourage content-driven agendas for the company's various constituencies and customers and to add further value to the d... (more)

In response to the new Microsoft / Novell / Oracle front it's now facing, Red Hat has quietly slipped an indemnification clause into its defenses. After the Microsoft-Novell rapprochement last Thursday, Red Hat posted a FAQ adding indemnification to its three-year-old Open Source... (more)

When Red Hat CEO Matthew Szulik (pictured) went on CNBC last Friday after his stock took a nasty hit, he said he's not going to cut prices despite Oracle CEO Larry Ellison's move to undercut him. Whether he can maintain that position in the clinches when negotiating with accounts... (more)

Red Hat CEO Matthew Szulik says he's not going to cut prices despite Oracle CEO Larry Ellison's move to undercut him. At least that was Red Hat's first response when Matthew went on CNBC last Friday after his stock took a nasty hit. Whether he can maintain that position in the c... (more)

After a hiccup or two at the end, Red Hat has made Fedora Core 6 available for download. Fedora is the company's freebie operating system and its test bed for technologies that eventually show up in its more polished commercial distro. Fedora is where Red Hat over now three itera... (more)

To fend off Oracle's attempt at a wholesale rout of its customers, Red Hat put a short FAQ on its web site under the headline "Unfakeable Linux" that promises "more to follow." The FAQ starts, oddly enough, with the reassurance that despite Oracle's potentially devastatingly host... (more)

Some on Wall Street, which has been busily cutting its ratings, reckon that Oracle has just painted a great big takeover target on Red Hat's chest and Global Equities Research analyst Trip Chowdhry thinks that, if Red Hat goes down, IBM is a more likely buyer than Oracle, an inte... (more)

Red Hat announced the City of Chicago's successful migration to Red Hat Enterprise Linux for essential government programs, including the vehicle registration system, online job applications, restaurant inspections, ethics training and more. The City of Chicago migrated to Red Ha... (more)

SafeNet, Inc. has announced the release of Sentinel Hardware Keys for Linux platforms, allowing software developers in the Linux community to protect 32-bit software applications from piracy and implement flexible licensing models. Sentinel Hardware Keys are the most widely-deplo... (more)

Red Hat announced the second annual Red Hat Government Users Conference on Nov. 8, 2006, in Washington, DC. Open source integration, security, service-oriented architectures (SOA) and storage will be the top priorities on the agenda at the 2006 conference as users from defense, c... (more)

Red Hat announced the commencement of the first Red Hat Developer Day in India. An exclusive Red Hat event, the Red Hat Developer Day aims to bring together Linux developers and users to help grow open source technologies, development, techniques, tools and standards through the ... (more)

Red Hat has integrated JBoss, which it acquired 90 days ago, into Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and put the resulting Red Hat Application Stack (RHAS) up for sale as a new subscription possibility. The new stack comes with the JBoss Application Server, JBoss Hibernate, the obje... (more)

Red Hat, the world's leading provider of open source solutions to the enterprise, announced two significant milestones related to its acquisition of JBoss. Multi-platform JBoss enterprise middleware subscriptions are available to Red Hat channel partners globally, through major d... (more)

Red Hat announced the growing adoption of Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat Network solutions by several higher education institutions, including Wake Forest University, the University of Washington and Vanderbilt University. These top-tier universities have made the switch to... (more)

Red Hat has announced the availability of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Beta 1 milestone. This public beta is a preview of the next generation of Red Hat's comprehensive suite of enterprise operating systems, designed for mission-critical enterprise computing and certified by to... (more)

Red Hat has announced its continuing commitment to superior security services with a new initiative, implemented by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), that enables members of the software industry to officially and publicly comment on vulnerabilities. This... (more)