Red Hat

A collection of 46 posts

Open Source

OpenSource.com Launches

Red Hat has recently launched OpenSource.com.  This isn't a site where Red Hat will simply extol the virtues of its products, but about Open Source in general... even outside the technology context.  We already know that Open Source has the ability to definitively produce better software.  Red

Linux

Red Hat: Bad economy is good for Open Source

From a post by Matt Asay: Well, on Wednesday Red Hat announced fiscal first-quarter revenue of $174 million, up 11 percent from the prior year. Subscription revenue was up 14 percent year over year to $148.8 million. The company's total deferred revenue balance is now $567.3

Linux

On the record with Jim Whitehurst, Red Hat's new CEO

When Red Hat announced that Jim Whitehurst, the COO of Delta, would be taking over for Matthew Szulik there were quite a few skeptics.  As I noted, going outside the tech industry for a CEO has had both its ups and downs.  After reading this interview of Jim Whitehurst by

Linux

Matthew Szulik resigns as Red Hat CEO, is replaced by an airline COO

Matthew Szulik has somewhat abruptly announced his departure as CEO of Red Hat.  He will remain on as chairman of the board.  It's extremely sad to see this is a result of family illness (which is sometimes a euphemism in CEO departures, but in this case is legitimate

Linux

Red Hat: BofA Downgrades; Cites Troubles With JBoss

(via Matt) Following news that Novell may be building momentum comes news that Bank of America has downgraded RHT.  As is often the case with stock analysts, more are piling on the downgrade now.  From Barrons: Red Hat (RHT) shares are lower today after Bank of America analyst Kirk Materne

Linux

Some Novell Momentum

It looks like Novell might be quietly building up some momentum.  First came news that Office Depot is consolidating onto the SLES platform: In its latest significant victory, Novell announced that Office Depot has elected to consolidate its server infrastructure on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 Service Pack 1. In

Microsoft

Patent Firm Acacia Loses Case Against Microsoft; More To Come?

It looks like Acacia, who recent filed a suit against Red Hat and Novell, just lost its first court battle.  From a paidContent article: The notorious patent holding company Acacia Research, which first came to light in the digital media industry for claiming broad patents in the streaming media field,

Google

Lessons from Google and Red Hat for Facebook and Open Source

Matt has articulated something I've tried to explain to people many times.  From his post: Twentieth century software business models focus on scarcity because they're founded upon 20th century conceptions of property (actually, their origin is a few centuries' older than that, but never mind)

Linux

Amazon to host Red Hat Linux online

In a move that's somewhat divergent from the direction they've been headed, Red Hat recently announced that RHEL will soon be available on the Amazon EC2 platform.  I say somewhat divergent because Red Hat had been clearly focused on the Enterprise market for a while now.

Fedora

How badly is CentOS hurting Red Hat?

That's the question asked in this article: Why does Red Hat tolerate CentOS? The Community ENTerprise Operating System is an identical binary clone of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (minus the trademarks), compiled from the source code RPMs that Red Hat conveniently provides on its FTP site. It is

Novell

Acacia's Latest Target: NetFlix

It's not just Red Hat and Novell.  From TechDirt Acacia has become one of the most hated firms by technology companies that actually do stuff. That's because Acacia is one of the biggest (if not the biggest) firms out there in the business of buying up

Microsoft

Patent Infringement Lawsuit Filed Against Red Hat & Novell III

(coverage continues) Via 451 CAOS Theory: It looks like the Acacia lawsuit may indeed have little to do with Open Source and be just another general patent troll case.  From the article: The nation's first Linux patent suit currently facing Red Hat and Novell isn't about

Apple

Patent Infringement Lawsuit Filed Against Red Hat & Novell II

(A follow up to previous coverage) As you may have guessed, this topic is being discussed heavily around the web.  Mark Radcliffe points out that Open Source companies are likely becoming a more tempting target to patent trolls due to the stunning growth in the sector (keep in mind that

Apple

Patent Infringement Lawsuit Filed Against Red Hat & Novell

Earlier this month, Ballmer reiterated his stance on patents and Linux: Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer has warned users of Red Hat Linux that they will have to pay Microsoft for its intellectual property. "People who use Red Hat, at least with respect to our intellectual property, in a

Linux

Yahoo Acquires Zimbra For $350 million in Cash II

A quick follow up on the Zimbra acquisition.  While I'm extremely happy for Yahoo! on picking up a great company, I agree with Jack that it would have been a great fit for Red Hat.  Had they made the pickup 6-12 months ago they surely could have gotten

Linux

Microsoft kills its 'Get the Facts' anti-Linux site

A little late on this one, but Microsoft has replaced its Get the Facts site with one that is ostensibly less biased. "The goal of the site is to offer more in-depth information and customer-to-customer opinions about many of the issues IT administrators face," a company spokeswoman said.

Linux

Red Hat CEO Says He Talked Patents with Microsoft III

A quick final follow up on this post (for those of you who still have a little doubt).  From eWeek: Microsoft and Red Hat are no closer to a deal involving intellectual property cooperation, Microsoft has confirmed. "Red Hat and Microsoft have previously had conversations about interoperability, but none

Linux

Red Hat CEO Says He Talked Patents with Microsoft II

A quick follow up on this post based on some questions/comments that I got via email.  First, no - I absolutely don't think Red Hat is currently in discussion with Microsoft to sign a Novell-style patent deal.  Note the bolding.  They may very well be in some

Linux

Red Hat CEO Says He Talked Patents with Microsoft

It comes as absolutely no surprise that Microsoft approached Red Hat before any other Linux vendor (including Novell) about the patent agreement.  It also comes as no surprise that a discussion took place and that no agreement was reached.  Was is a bit of a surprise to me is: The

Linux

More Microsoft Patent Dealings

So, Linspire is the latest company to sign a patent deal with Microsoft.  They've even managed to wrangle some additional items they claim are not in the other deals: Linspire Inc. has announced an agreement to license voice-enabled instant messaging, Windows Media 10 CODECs, and TrueType font technologies

Open Source

OSBC Underway

The OSBC is officially underway.  The opening keynote was the always interesting Matthew Szulik.  I'm not sure who does the Red Hat short videos, but they are consistently both entertaining and compelling (even if some of the themes are reused quite a bit).  Some interesting tidbits from the

Open Source

Is Centric CRM an Open Source Company?

I have to agree with Stephe that Centric CRM is not Open Source.  You need look no further than the first couple lines of their license to see this: This Centric Public License is based on United States Copyright law, as defined by Title 17 of the United States Code.

Google

Red Hat to build 'Global Desktop'

Quite a bit of news coming out of the Red Hat Summit.  I really would have liked to attend this, but somehow the date slipped by me.  Hopefully next year.  One of the major announcements made was 'Global Desktop'.  From the article: Red Hat is preparing to release

Linux

Unbreakable Linux: The untold story

Mike Olson, vice president of Embedded Technologies at Oracle, recently posted an interesting entry on his blog about Unbreakable Linux (via Matt).  The article details why RHEL was chosen and how Oracle contributes to Linux.  Keep in mind that Mike works for Oracle, but via the Sleepycat aquisition.  He knows

Linux

Oracle Linux adopters labelled 'idiots'

Just ran across this odd story over at ZNNet AU.  From the article: One of the first converts to Oracle's support for Linux has revealed the public backlash it has endured since their decision to drop Red Hat. Melbourne company Opes Prime Stockbroking told ZDNet Australia that in