Red Hat News Desk

Bob Young to Leave Red Hat Bob Young, Red Hat co-founder, will be leaving the company he co-founded with Mark Ewing in 1993. He is a member of the board of directors of Red Hat. He continues to operate Lulu, a self publishing company and owns the Hamilton Wildcats, a Canadian  Fo... (more)

Red Hat's RHCSS Will Make Linux Installations More Secure On Oct 17, 2005, Red Hat announced the Red Hat Certified Security Specialist (RHCSS), the first security certification from a major Linux certification program. RHCSS candidates have to be RHCEs and pass three endorsement ex... (more)

"Brian's vision and experience make him the right person to lead Emerging Technologies as our CTO," said Paul Cormier (pictured), EVP of Engineering at Red Hat, as it was announced that Brian Stevens from today is Red Hat's new CTO. "He's pioneered new technologies that have cont... (more)

"Our second quarter results show strong growth in revenue and cash flow," stated Charlie Peters (pictured), Executive Vice President and CFO of Red Hat, as the company announced financial results for its fiscal second quarter ended August 31, 2005. "We continue to focus on operat... (more)

"There are many research reports that try to compare the number of vulnerabilities between Linux and other operating systems but none take into account the severity of the issues," said Mark Cox, head of the Red Hat security response team, as RH announced this week that Red Hat E... (more)

­ Arkeia Corporation has recently announced Red Hat Ready certification of its flagship enterprise network backup software, as well as support of Apple's Macintosh OS X Tiger. The Red Hat announcement states that the company now supports Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 environments fo... (more)

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 ... (more)

RedHat Software, which has staked its business on being trusted providers of Linux for the enterprise, has issued five updated to its Enterprise Linux and Fedora, addressing vulnerabilities across a range of vulnerability. One update was issued for "mc," and "fixes several vulnerab... (more)

Temperatures were surprisingly moderate outside and cool inside the sprawling Hilton New Orleans Riverside hotel in the delta city, as Red Hat kicked off its first customer summit. The North Carolina-based Linux vendor, which preaches enterprise Linux, brought out a gospel choir ... (more)

There are seven tracks being offered at the first Red Hat Summit in New Orleans. Categories include Clustering and Virtualization, Security and Identity Management, Systems Management, Business, OS Technologies (with two tracks), and Partner Sessions. Specific sessions on tap for... (more)

The European Committee European for Interoperable Systems (ECIS) will intervene in the European Commission's efforts to prevent Microsoft from leveraging its desktop OS dominance  into what the EC may view as unfair advantages in other computing markets. The EC's concerns echo t... (more)

IBM has reportedly stated that it has consulted with more than 500 companies who currently use Unix in their enterprise IT strategy about how to migrate to a Lintel platform that integrates Red Hat Linux with Intel-based IBM systems. The consultations presumably target major Unix... (more)

"We are very pleased with the strong momentum of the Linux market place, and our business in particular," commented Charlie Peters, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Red Hat, as RH yesterday announced its financial results for the fourth quarter and fiscal y... (more)

OpenSolaris.org Is Born; But Sun Forgets To Register OpenJava.org Sun Opens Access To 1,600 Patents "Solaris Is From Venus, Linux Is From Mars" - Revisited "Red Hat," wrote Mark Webbink, Red Hat's general counsel since 2000 in a letter issued yesterday to the press, "has experie... (more)

Red Hat has teamed with IBM to develop a Linux ISV, Certification Support Programme. Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) can seek Red Hat Enterprise Linux certification for their product. By doing so, Red Hat and IBM will extend resources to help them achieve this goal. Certifica... (more)

Red Hat yesterday announced the opening of Red Hat Beijing, a new corporate presence through which RH will help the open source market in China to learn more about open source and how to leverage the full benefits of open source within their organizations. Working with partners s... (more)

In an abrupt shift of policy, Dell has announced that it has entered an agreement with Novell whereby Dell's single- and dual-processor line of servers will serve as distribution platforms for SUSE Enterprise Server 9. Until now, Dell relied on only Red Hat. The change is being v... (more)

Red Hat announced yestoday, at its analyst day in New York, the acquisition of Netscape server software, from America Online. AOL has owned the software since 1998, when it bought the Netscape property. The move is a means for Red Hat to broaden its horizons beyond its core Linux... (more)

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Cybernet Systems has introduced its NetMAX Professional 5.0 Linux Server that the company says is the best- priced and performing server on the market. The new version offers a full featured Red Hat-based Linux server that is pre-configured to provide Apple/PC/Unix file sharing, ... (more)