More commercial options for widely-used app server
CA has announced its SiteMinder and SOA Security Manager products are now available for the open source JBoss middleware platform.
The company posits its SPICE protocol as a next-generation RDP or ICA
Red Hat has open sourced a virtual desktop protocol it acquired last year, called the Simple Protocol for Independent Computing Environment (SPICE), in the hope of fostering its wider adoption.
Better tablet PC support also a feature
Fedora, the Linux-based operating system backed by Red Hat, has released version 12 with a view to improving the multimedia and graphics experience on the desktop.
The combination of pumped-up technical features and relatively low prices are giving vendors with open source-based products more inroads
The combination of pumped-up technical features and relatively low prices are giving vendors with open source-based products more inroads to corporate networks than ever before.
The Linux vendor may be worried about Oracle's coming takeover of MySQL
Red Hat Inc. has invested an unspecified amount in open-source database vendor EnterpriseDB Inc., a sign that the Linux vendor may be worried about the implications of Oracle Corp.'s takeover of MySQL through its pending acquisition of Sun Microsystems Inc.
Who said you can't make a business out of free software?
Not since the heady days of the dot com boom has the share market for an open source company's stock been brighter. As of the last Nasdaq trade on October 19, 2009, Red Hat's share price stood at $28.46 with the mighty Microsoft in its shadow at $26.36.
The new form of virtualization is built upon KVM
Resolved to the fact that virtualization will be a key technology for businesses to move forward, open source IT solutions provider Red Hat declared on Friday its moves to clamp down on the new trend space, with a focus on next-generation virtualization technology.
Operating systems, hypervisors now can be mixed and matched
Eight months after announcing they would make their virtualization wares interoperable, Microsoft and Red Hat delivered the goods Wednesday on their first major collaboration.
Company officials stress ROI, TCO at conference; projects for Ruby app server, ease of use also highlighted
Anyone finding Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) subscriptions a tough sell for management used to Microsoft's one-time license fee for Windows must emphasize that there are more factors to be considered, chiefly return on investment, Red Hat officials said Friday.
Red hat directs attention to hypervisor, virtualization management tools
Red Hat this week lined up nose-to-nose with VMware and Microsoft laying out its bid to become a top-tier provider of virtualization and cloud computing infrastructure software for both the enterprise and service providers.
Existing drivers low key and unstable
In another sign interoperability between virtual Linux and Windows operating systems is gathering pace, Red Hat has quietly released a set of drivers to improve the performance of Windows guests hosted on Linux's Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) hypervisor.
The enterprise Linux vendor celebrates the tenth year of its certification program as it tries to recruit more training partners.
Linux vendor Red Hat is pushing its certification program and looking to recruit more training partners in light of its ten-year anniversary and increasing Linux uptake.
The company lists Red Hat and Canonical as competitors to Windows on PCs in an SEC filing
Microsoft for the first time has named Linux distributors Red Hat and Canonical as competitors to its Windows client business in its annual filing to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
New tray icon and general UI improvements
Virtual Machine Manager (virt-manager) has reached release 0.8 which includes a new graphical wizards for cloning disk images adding devices to existing virtual machines and a new system tray icon.
Linux vendor urges Microsoft to disavow patent fights
While applauding Microsoft's contribution of code to the Linux community this week, Red Hat nonetheless urged its rival to pledge that it will never use its patents against Linux.
