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Would a VMware Acquisition of Red Hat Go Anywhere?

admin — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 09:04:17 -0500

OStatic: "While both companies have declined to comment, the prospect could make a lot of sense for VMware for several reasons."

Open Source: An Open Question for Red Hat and Others

admin — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 16:34:31 -0500

Business Week: "Only a handful of open-source acquisitions the last two years have netted investors at least 10 times their money."

Why Red Hat Invested In JBoss Instead Of Linux Desktops

admin — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 11:04:31 -0500

The VAR Guy: "Ever wonder why Red Hat spends so much time focused on the JBoss middleware market and so little time trying to make Linux a desktop standard? The answer involves some simple but startling open source math."

Red Hat: Gateway to Open Source in Latin America

admin — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 08:04:13 -0500

The Open Road: "I have a team of core Linux and JBoss engineers here in the countries in which we operate to provide local language and local understanding support. We don't outsource support."

Acquia: Counting Down to Commercially Supported Drupal

admin — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 05:04:07 -0500

OStatic: "Acquia, as we've covered before, has been working away on an array of support offerings and services for the powerful open source Drupal content management system (CMS). OStatic is based on Drupal, as are sites such as Fast Company and The Onion. Acquia's goal is to apply a Red Hat-like approach to support and services for Drupal, and it will deliver these offerings later this year."

Linux Foundation Launches Killer Development Tool

admin — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 23:00:06 -0500

Linux.com: "Ask any independent software vendor what he hates most about developing for Linux and he'll tell you that it's having to develop for SUSE and for Red Hat and for Ubuntu and ... you get the idea. The Linux Foundation has just released a beta of a new program, Linux Application Checker (AppChecker), that's going to make ISVs and other programmers start to love developing for Linux."

Interview: Red Hat's new CEO

admin — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 13:00:04 -0500

ZDNet: ""The clouds will all run Linux," Whitehurst said in an interview."

Microsoft, its Time to Officially Rescind the Linux Lawsuit Thre...

admin — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 10:00:09 -0500

Network World: "f it stands up says, "Sorry, just kidding!" that won't make the channel partners happy, particularly if they used the threat to convince customers they must buy SUSE or Windows over Red Hat and other distros. But the fact is, we are seeing actions by Microsoft that indicate that the "suing Linux users" jig is up."

SELinux and Fedora

admin — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 11:45:27 -0500

LWN: "Red Hat has undoubtedly done more to make SELinux usable than any other organization, but has it actually reached the point where it can be enabled by default for all desktops? The Fedora project clearly thinks so. Not only is SELinux enabled, but the installer no longer has an option to disable it or to put it into "permissive" mode."

Open Source: Thinking Outside the Glass Box

admin — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 00:15:12 -0500

tecosystems: "If I were to ask you what the world's most largest open source firm was, how would you answer? Red Hat, perhaps, because they're the first pure play to get within hailing distance of a billion in revenue? MySQL, because they were valued at a billion? IBM? Sun...?"