Red Hat News Desk

Red Hat has announced the completion of its acquisition of JBoss. By acquiring JBoss, the global leader in open source middleware, Red Hat is now positioned to accelerate the shift to service-oriented architectures (SOA) and enable the next generation of web-enabled applications ... (more)

Red Hat has announced that they have appointed Ingram Micro as the company's National Distributor in India. Ingram Micro, the largest global wholesale provider of technology products and supply chain management services, will now distribute Red Hat's products and solutions to cha... (more)

Emu Software, a commercial open source configuration management vendor and sponsor of the Second Annual Red Hat Summit, will use the Summit to unveil the soon-to-be-released Red Hat Network (RHN) module for their NetDirector product. The module provides seamless integration betwe... (more)

Altair Engineering, a provider of technology and services that strengthen client innovation and decision-making, today announced that it will work closely with Red Hat, leading open source and Linux provider, to ensure that Altair's PBS Professional will continue to be compatible... (more)

JBoss, Inc. announced plans at JavaOne 2006 in San Francisco to submit a proposal to the Java Community Process (JCP) to standardize Web Beans. The Web Beans standard initiative will aim to bridge the artificial gap between Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) 3.0 and JavaServer Faces in t... (more)

Red Hat  and IIT Bombay  announced that they are working together to support and spread open source programming skills among engineering colleges, MCA programs and other institutions. With the latest Red Hat Scholarships program and a new, collaborative learning program, Red Hat ... (more)

Red Hat,announced that BPU Banca, the operational parent bank of the group Banche Popolari Unite, has chosen to implement Red Hat Enterprise Linux across its desktops and servers. The bank is migrating all of its 8,000 UNIX workstation clients to Red Hat Desktop. In this project ... (more)

Red Hat announced that the U.S. Department of Transportation's Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) saved the federal government more than $15 million in datacenter operating and upgrading costs by migrating to Red Hat Enterprise Linux. The FAA executed a major systems migration... (more)

Massively Parallel Technologies,  a provider of on-demand high-performance computing (HPC), announced the addition of Red Hat Linux, SuSE Linux, Microsoft Server 2003, Microsoft Server 2003 x64 and Mac OS X to their list of supported operating systems. Massively’s middlewar... (more)

Inxight Software, provider of enterprise software solutions announced the general availability of Inxight SmartDiscovery Extraction Server (SDX), the first commercially available, massively scalable solution for text analytics in more than 30 languages. This powerful, linearly sc... (more)

Red Hat announced that it has entered into a multi-year relationship with Landmark, a product line of Halliburton's Digital & Consulting Solutions division, making Red Hat Network the compute management platform of choice for Landmark's "Workflow on Demand" services business. In ... (more)

"We truly believe in the potential of software innovation, once freed from the fetters of proprietary development." Thus spake Matthew Szulik, Chairman and CEO of Red Hat, on behalf of both himself and Marc Fleury (pictured), on the day that Red Hat announced it has entered into ... (more)

Red Hat announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire JBoss, the global leader in open source middleware. By acquiring JBoss, Red Hat expects to accelerate the shift to service-oriented architectures (SOA), by enabling the next generation of web-enabled app... (more)

"Red Hat has been supporting a free Linux distribution for over ten years, and Red Hat will *always* support a free Linux distribution," wrote Fedora project leader Max Spevack in a posting to the Fedora Project listserv last week. In the detailed posting he wet in to outline tha... (more)

The OpenVZ project has announced availability of its operating system level server virtualization software for the recently announced Fedora Core 5. Also, the industry-exclusive "zero downtime migration" feature will be made available for the OpenVZ software. This announcement fo... (more)

Red Hat, a global provider of open source enterprise software, announced that Arabtec, a construction company in the United Arab Emirates, has migrated its mail servers to Red Hat Enterprise Linux to provide e-mail for its 3,200 administrative and management employees. The constr... (more)

Red Hat has announced that Arabtec, the leading construction company in the United Arab Emirates, has migrated its mail servers to Red Hat Enterprise Linux in order to provide a high quality, secure and stable core application to its 3,200 administrative and management employees.... (more)

The move to weld virtualization technology deep into the Linux kernel is facing setbacks. Despite earlier optimistic predictions by Red Hat executivess and others in the community that the work would take just a couple of months, they say now that the technology is still "far fro... (more)

atsec information security corporation, an independent, standards-based IT (information technology) security consulting and evaluation services company, has completed the Common Criteria (CC) evaluation of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 on a range of IBM server platforms. The evaluat... (more)

Red Hat has formally announced its founding corporate membership in the One Laptop per Child (OLPC) initiative. The OLPC project aims to create and distribute inexpensive laptop computers to students around the globe for educational purposes, particularly those in developing coun... (more)