http://linux.sys-con.com/ Latest articles from Red Hat News Desk Copyright 2008 LINUX Fri, 04 Jul 2008 11:58:00 GMT LINUX 10 http://backend.userland.com/rss http://linux.sys-con.com/read/589046.htmhttp://linux.sys-con.com/read/589046.htm Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:45:00 GMT Red Hat said Wednesday that it had settled patent litigation brought against it two years ago by Firestar Software Inc in what was possibly the very first patent infringement suit ever brought against an open source company. It also turns out that Red Hat was sued by an outfit called DataTern Inc just this past April on another patent. Bank of America, Visa, Wachovia and Delta Air Lines were also named. http://linux.sys-con.com/read/574179.htmhttp://linux.sys-con.com/read/574179.htm Fri, 23 May 2008 11:15:00 GMT Red Hat announced the availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2. With this latest update, subscribers can achieve greater return on their IT investment with new hardware support capabilities, selected new software technologies and numerous quality improvements. And, the certified application environment provided by every Red Hat Enterprise Linux version means that subscribers enjoy the new capabilities provided in release updates without the need to recertify their applications. http://linux.sys-con.com/read/555097.htmhttp://linux.sys-con.com/read/555097.htm Wed, 30 Apr 2008 09:00:00 GMT Red Hat announced that Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.1, in combination with Reuters Market Data System (RMDS 6.0), IBM BladeCenter H and 10 Gigabit Ethernet technology from Blade Network Technologies and Chelsio Communications, delivers record-breaking performance results that meet key demands of the financial services industry. Together, the combination provides both the lowest mean latency and lowest standard deviation of latency reported with RMDS. http://linux.sys-con.com/read/515124.htmhttp://linux.sys-con.com/read/515124.htm Mon, 10 Mar 2008 12:30:00 GMT Red Hat announced that Florida Hospital relies on Red Hat Enterprise Linux, JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, Red Hat Global File System, Red Hat Cluster Suite and Red Hat Network to maintain reliable disaster-recovery systems that protect and maintain critical patient information. http://linux.sys-con.com/read/490326.htmhttp://linux.sys-con.com/read/490326.htm Fri, 25 Jan 2008 09:45:00 GMT Seam Remoting provides a convenient, AJAX-based client API for interacting with server-side Seam components with very little up-front development effort. This presentation will briefly introduce Seam and describe the features of Seam Remoting, demonstrating how easy it is to write client-side JavaScript code that interacts asynchronously with Seam components, whether they are EJBs or POJOs. It will also describe advanced features of Seam Remoting such as subscribing to a JMS topic from a web page via AJAX. http://linux.sys-con.com/read/488468.htmhttp://linux.sys-con.com/read/488468.htm Tue, 22 Jan 2008 08:00:00 GMT Red Hat announced that Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 has been selected as Gold medalist winner in the SearchEnterpriseLinux.com 2007 'Products of the Year' awards, in the Linux Server Distributions category. This annual award is presented by the editors of TechTarget's Data Center Media Group. http://linux.sys-con.com/read/485030.htmhttp://linux.sys-con.com/read/485030.htm Mon, 14 Jan 2008 10:00:00 GMT Managed hosting services provider, NetBenefit, will implement a managed hosting solution based upon the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Cluster Suite. The collaboration with Red Hat emphasizes NetBenefit's position as an experienced provider of business critical managed hosting solutions for organizations that demand continuously available websites or online applications. http://linux.sys-con.com/read/477664.htmhttp://linux.sys-con.com/read/477664.htm Wed, 19 Dec 2007 12:00:00 GMT Fratelli Carli has standardized its IT infrastructure on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, an open source application platform, to streamline the processing of orders and maintain system response times below one second through periods of peak demand. http://linux.sys-con.com/read/477691.htmhttp://linux.sys-con.com/read/477691.htm Wed, 19 Dec 2007 12:00:00 GMT Transitive announced that its QuickTransit enterprise product line will be available for purchase from the Red Hat Exchange (RHX) online service. Working in collaboration with partners such as Transitive, applications available via RHX are validated to run on Red Hat Enterprise Linux, delivered through Red Hat Network, and backed by Red Hat as the single point of contact for support. http://linux.sys-con.com/read/472204.htmhttp://linux.sys-con.com/read/472204.htm Sun, 09 Dec 2007 22:00:00 GMT Centeris, the company that integrates Linux, Unix and Mac into Microsoft's Active Directory, often a lifesaver for mixed environments, has changed its name to Likewise Software after its flagship product and, while it was at it, announced its first open source project, Likewise Open. Likewise suggests that organizations replace their homegrown and DIY solutions with its Likewise Open enterprise authentication and it has posted the source code so Linux vendors can integrate it into upcoming versions of their operating systems. Red Hat and Canonical, the Ubuntu company, are supporting it and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is going with it. http://linux.sys-con.com/read/472172.htmhttp://linux.sys-con.com/read/472172.htm Sun, 09 Dec 2007 18:45:00 GMT Red Hat has swept up its messaging, real-time and grid mojo into a little beta pile it's calling Red Hat Enterprise MRG, a distributed computing platform that's optimized to run on top of RHEL, of course, but can work on other platforms as well, it says, either individually or in combination. It's thinking of Java, Solaris and Microsoft's .NET. The final product is scheduled for availability early next year. The 'M' is the messaging from the open source ampq.org project that Red Hat helped start. It thinks it's a disruptive technology and will become the standard messaging platform. At least it's working on it. It claims it's seeing 100x performance improvements over proprietary solutions. http://linux.sys-con.com/read/468548.htmhttp://linux.sys-con.com/read/468548.htm Fri, 30 Nov 2007 13:45:00 GMT Red Hat said Monday that the public beta of its operating system on the newfangled Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) was available. Amazon has taken to peddling resizable time, utility-style, on its own data center to other people and Red Hat arranged for its customers to run their certified apps on the thing under the Red Hat Network management service if they had a mind to. One buys whatever capacity one needs for $19 a month per account plus 21-94 cents an hour depending on the size of the instance plus bandwidth and storage fees. http://linux.sys-con.com/read/468007.htmhttp://linux.sys-con.com/read/468007.htm Thu, 29 Nov 2007 10:00:00 GMT Red Hat announced that EsSalud has adopted Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 to stabilize its organization-wide systems through a swift, transparent and cost-effective implementation project. EsSalud turned to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 on HP hardware to reliably and cost-effectively centralize the information of its national assistance centers, the company said. http://linux.sys-con.com/read/465536.htmhttp://linux.sys-con.com/read/465536.htm Mon, 26 Nov 2007 09:00:00 GMT OpenService, Inc. announced that the company?s InfoCenter? software suite has been certified by Red Hat (NYSE: RHT) through its Red Hat Ready program. The certification attests to the testing OpenService conducted to assure full compatibility of InfoCenter on Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS4 and the participation of OpenService in the Independent Software Vendor (ISV) Partner Program sponsored by Red Hat. http://linux.sys-con.com/read/445590.htmhttp://linux.sys-con.com/read/445590.htm Tue, 13 Nov 2007 11:45:00 GMT The chief technology officer and vice president of engineering of Red Hat, Brian Stevens, will be giving the Virtualization Keynote entitled 'The Future of the Virtual Enterprise' at SYS-CON Events' upcoming Virtualization Conference & Expo 2007 West in San Francisco (November 12-13). An IT industry luminary, Stevens is credited with having pioneered new technologies that contributed to the rise of Linux as an industry-standard operating platform. http://linux.sys-con.com/read/460463.htmhttp://linux.sys-con.com/read/460463.htm Tue, 13 Nov 2007 11:15:00 GMT Red Hat's automation strategy ('any application, anywhere, anytime') is the backbone of its strategy for the infrastructure future, said chief technology officer and vice president of engineering, Brian Stevens, as he gave the Virtualization Keynote in San Francisco this morning entitled 'The Future of the Virtual Enterprise' at SYS-CON Events' Virtualization Conference & Expo 2007 West in San Francisco. http://linux.sys-con.com/read/458502.htmhttp://linux.sys-con.com/read/458502.htm Fri, 09 Nov 2007 09:45:00 GMT 'Other virtualization products don't scale to support large numbers of cores or CPUs, which limit customers' ability to utilize their infrastructure, or force customers to deploy multiple virtualization platforms,' said Paul Cormier, EVP of Worldwide Engineering at Red Hat, as the Raleigh, NC-based company this week released Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.1 , with integrated virtualization. http://linux.sys-con.com/read/458075.htmhttp://linux.sys-con.com/read/458075.htm Fri, 09 Nov 2007 08:15:00 GMT The astonishingly rapid rise of virtualization technology has made it a vital component of any Enterprise IT strategy today. And the technology is triggering dramatic changes in product offerings and business practices to support virtualized operational models. These breakneck speed developments have lead to a plethora of solutions, with the attendant confusion that typically surrounds fast moving technologies. In this presentation Mr Stevens will outline current trends in virtualization technologies and examine their potential impact on, and benefits for, future Enterprise IT deployments. Topics will include tradeoffs between open source and proprietary solutions, hardware integration efforts, deployment models, and long-term, high-volume serviceability/security considerations. http://linux.sys-con.com/read/458133.htmhttp://linux.sys-con.com/read/458133.htm Fri, 09 Nov 2007 08:15:00 GMT Open source has made signficant inroads into middleware deployments in the enterprise. More and more, open source is being used to deliver the benefits of SOA and open source to the enterprise. There are many custom Enterprise Service Bus deployments waiting to be upgraded to a simple, open and affordable SOA integration platform. This session explores where open source is getting the most traction in SOA deployments with a focus on ESB and illustrates this by describing some of the customer SOA solutions the speaker sees at Red Hat. http://linux.sys-con.com/read/457869.htmhttp://linux.sys-con.com/read/457869.htm Thu, 08 Nov 2007 18:00:00 GMT Red Hat Enterprise Linux, with integrated virtualization, provides a seamless deployment solution bridging both on-premise and cloud computing. As part of this solution, Red Hat Network offers a common set of management and automation tools across on-premises deployments and the Amazon EC2 cloud computing environment. Red Hat will provide technical support and maintenance of Red Hat Enterprise Linux on Amazon EC2. This is the first commercially supported operating system available on Amazon EC2. http://linux.sys-con.com/read/436438.htmhttp://linux.sys-con.com/read/436438.htm Mon, 01 Oct 2007 02:45:00 GMT Those swinging doors that grace the office of the head of marketing at Red Hat have slapped another exiting executive in the fanny. Old-time Unix veteran Tim Yeaton, senior VP of marketing, has been replaced by Michael Chen, seconded over from Red Hat China, where he was general manager, to be VP of corporate marketing. He reports to CEO Matthew Szulik and will work out of Red Hat's headquarters in North Carolina. http://linux.sys-con.com/read/428595.htmhttp://linux.sys-con.com/read/428595.htm Thu, 20 Sep 2007 05:00:00 GMT Spanair is utilizing Red Hat Enterprise Linux in two of the company's major projects. The airline is running its Carmen crew optimizer software, providing the airline with settings for crew managing, fleet scheduling and timetables, on three Red Hat Enterprise Linux servers. The Red Hat platform is also used in several of the airline's optimization stations that receive information provided by the central server to execute a number of processes. Additionally, Spanair runs its Oracle 10g R2 database server on HP Proliant servers on Red Hat Enterprise Linux to host its data warehouse. http://linux.sys-con.com/read/428224.htmhttp://linux.sys-con.com/read/428224.htm Fri, 14 Sep 2007 21:15:00 GMT Red Hat, in conjunction with the open source community, released JBoss ESB 4.2, a JBoss.org open source project. JBoss ESB 4.2 intermediates interactions between enterprise applications, business services, business components, and middleware to integrate and enable the automation of business processes. http://linux.sys-con.com/read/408996.htmhttp://linux.sys-con.com/read/408996.htm Tue, 31 Jul 2007 13:45:00 GMT SOA expert Thomas Erl, the founder of SOA Systems and editor of the Prentice Hall series of books on SOA, has made over the patent rights to the design for a unique, platform-agnostic service-modeling tool to Red Hat for its JBoss Enterprise SOA platform. Red Hat is apparently going to have to build the thing. It's supposed to make it easier for developers to collaborate and conceptualize, define and manage services without getting into the implementation details. Erl is anxious to evangelize SOA, which is why he gave the IP to Red Hat. http://linux.sys-con.com/read/401641.htmhttp://linux.sys-con.com/read/401641.htm Thu, 12 Jul 2007 15:00:00 GMT Red Hat earned $16.2 million, or eight cents a share, up 17% year-over-year on revenues of $118.9 million, up 42% year-over-year and up 7% sequentially in its first fiscal quarter ended May 31. On a non-GAAP basis it made 16 cents. Wall Street was thinking 15 cents on $117 million but it wasn't happy with the quarterly non-GAAP cash flow of $52.25 million, which may explain why the stock dipped Wednesday after-hours with the conference call and didn't come back. http://linux.sys-con.com/read/398168.htmhttp://linux.sys-con.com/read/398168.htm Wed, 04 Jul 2007 12:15:00 GMT JBoss Portal has had user personalization of individual portlets since the JBoss Portal 2.0. In JBoss Portal 2.6, we?ve improved the granularity of personalization and ability to further personalize the user experience. Personal user dashboards bring personalized themes, layouts and portlet content, increasing the productivity of specific roles and people within a business process or collaboration effort. http://linux.sys-con.com/read/386920.htmhttp://linux.sys-con.com/read/386920.htm Mon, 11 Jun 2007 13:30:00 GMT Red Hat and Symantec have wheeled out what they call secure server bundles for SMBs, either Red Hat Enterprise Linux or the Red Hat Application Stack combined with Symantec Critical System Protection for both pre-configured and custom-configured behavior-based host protection and against application threats running in the server. http://linux.sys-con.com/read/378800.htmhttp://linux.sys-con.com/read/378800.htm Thu, 24 May 2007 09:45:00 GMT Red Hat and Sybase are collaborating on a database appliance with integrated virtualization, a first. The virtualization is supposed to provide on-demand resource management and increased database performance. It'll use Sybase's Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) and according to the Standish Group offer a solution that's 15%-37% cheaper than alternative solutions. http://linux.sys-con.com/read/378798.htmhttp://linux.sys-con.com/read/378798.htm Wed, 23 May 2007 00:15:00 GMT There are now three sets of what Red Hat calls Liberation fonts: Sans (an open source substitute for Arial, Albany, Helvetica, Nimbus Sans L and Bitstream Vera Sans), Serif (a substitute for Times New Roman, Thorndale, Nimbus Roman and Bitstream Vera Serif) and Mono (a substitute for Courier New, Cumberland, Courier, Nimbus Mono L and Bitstream Vera Sans Mono). http://linux.sys-con.com/read/378797.htmhttp://linux.sys-con.com/read/378797.htm Mon, 21 May 2007 21:15:00 GMT EMC says its Symmetrix, Clariion, Celerra and Invista platforms have completed their interoperability qualification with Red Hat Linux. It is now going to start a Cooperative Resolution Center to support joint customers through an enhanced agreement to exchange support readiness training, escalation information and access to a joint lab to replicate joint customer issues. http://linux.sys-con.com/read/374797.htmhttp://linux.sys-con.com/read/374797.htm Sun, 13 May 2007 21:00:00 GMT Red Hat made some guttural, almost inarticulate, awfully confusing noises Wednesday from its user-cum-analyst meeting in San Diego when it tried to say that it's finally going to play the desktop card. Red Hat has always been rather, oh, comme ci comme ca about Linux on the desktop, pushing it off waiting for the right alignment of stars before starting to chase it. http://linux.sys-con.com/read/374807.htmhttp://linux.sys-con.com/read/374807.htm Sat, 12 May 2007 18:15:00 GMT The promised Red Hat Exchange (RHX) has come into existence. That's where Red Hat is going to sell third-party software, open source stuff build around Red Hat Enterprise Linux and JBoss, sort of like what Linspire does, in combination with its own stuff. It's assumed the experiment will result in an acquisition or two. http://linux.sys-con.com/read/374801.htmhttp://linux.sys-con.com/read/374801.htm Sat, 12 May 2007 11:30:00 GMT Under a joint program with Intel, Red Hat is going to deliver a Red Hat-branded software platform that supports desktop PCs imbued with Intel's vPro processor technology. It's supposed to bring hardware-assisted virtualization to the business desktop, which in turn is supposed to offer customers reduced management costs, improved operational efficiency and 'dramatically' reduced exposure to security threats - regardless of the client operating system. http://linux.sys-con.com/read/368230.htmhttp://linux.sys-con.com/read/368230.htm Mon, 30 Apr 2007 08:00:00 GMT Red Hat is buying a privately held proprietary software company called Metamatrix Inc that's backed by Kleiner Perkins, the Invus Group and Integral Capital Partners on undisclosed terms. Red Hat senior VP of enterprise solutions Tim Yeaton said it will supply the piece that was missing after Red Hat bought JBoss last year for $350 million and goose a new round of Unix-to-Linux migration by moving silo?d legacy applications to JBoss Enterprise Middleware. http://linux.sys-con.com/read/366497.htmhttp://linux.sys-con.com/read/366497.htm Sat, 28 Apr 2007 13:15:00 GMT 'With many enterprises spending as much as 70% of their IT budget on maintaining stove-piped legacy applications while a backlog of projects continues piling up, it's clear that proprietary 'application infrastructure vendors have failed to deliver relief for the CIO,' said Tim Yeaton, Senior Vice President of Enterprise Solutions, Red Hat. 'Until now, enterprises have had to choose from solutions with high acquisition, high integration, and high lock-in costs. By applying the attributes that made Red Hat Enterprise Linux the number one Unix migration platform to our JBoss Enterprise Middleware, Red Hat is providing customers a migration path to long-term value, choice, and control of their IT infrastructure.' http://linux.sys-con.com/read/366504.htmhttp://linux.sys-con.com/read/366504.htm Tue, 24 Apr 2007 21:45:00 GMT Red Hat is presenting the next high value migration opportunity, the company says, which it believes will deliver even greater cost savings to enterprises: moving siloed legacy applications to JBoss Enterprise Middleware. 'With many enterprises spending as much as 70% of their IT budget on maintaining stove-piped legacy applications while a backlog of projects continues piling up, it's clear that proprietary application infrastructure vendors have failed to deliver relief for the CIO,' said Tim Yeaton, Senior Vice President of Enterprise Solutions, Red Hat. http://linux.sys-con.com/read/366219.htmhttp://linux.sys-con.com/read/366219.htm Tue, 24 Apr 2007 11:00:00 GMT 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. http://linux.sys-con.com/read/298788.htmhttp://linux.sys-con.com/read/298788.htm Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:15:00 GMT 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 VMware solutions. http://linux.sys-con.com/read/357558.htmhttp://linux.sys-con.com/read/357558.htm Mon, 09 Apr 2007 14:45:00 GMT Now, enterprises deploying SOA applications on Red Hat's JBoss Enterprise Middleware can take advantage of SOA Software's Service Manager and WorkBench products for critical governance, security, management, and mediation functions. http://linux.sys-con.com/read/355958.htmhttp://linux.sys-con.com/read/355958.htm Tue, 03 Apr 2007 06:00:00 GMT 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 $112 million-$113 million, posting revenues of $111.1 million, up 5% sequentially and up 41% year-over-year. CFO Charlie Peters attributes the shortfall to lower-than-expected training revenues, explaining that he didn't think the holidays would have the impact he suggested they had. Earnings were also off 25% year-over-year to $21.5 million, or 10 cents a share, on the back of higher expenses for sales and marketing, R&D, taxes and stock compensation. Red Hat was expected to earn 15 cents but it's been staffing up and was preparing to roll out Red Hat 5.