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Red Hat? More like red hot

Posted March 30, 2012 - 2:30 pm

Shares of open source software and services vendor Red Hat are at a 12-year high following a strong fourth-quarter earnings report.
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Red Hat's Linux changes: Fixes or ISV positioning?

Posted December 1, 2011 - 11:56 am

Proposals from the Fedora Project that could change the fundamental infrastructure of Linux may raise questions on why Red Hat seems to be pushing away from existing standards.
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Red Hat shares rise on Q1 earnings gain

Posted June 22, 2011 - 6:19 pm

Enterprise open-source software and services market leader Red Hat on Wednesday reported a 42 percent increase in fiscal first-quarter profits.
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Hyper-V shines spotlight on CentOS, ready soon for 6.0 release

Posted May 18, 2011 - 8:00 am

As Red Hat and other vendors play defense in virtualization, Microsoft's announced support of CentOS on Hyper-V begs the question: when is CentOS 6 coming? Really soon, according to its lead developer.
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Recent patent litigation unveils greed and need for reform

Posted April 29, 2011 - 9:31 am

If there were ever a week where anyone could see just how remarkable stupid patent infringement litigationbhad become, this would certainly be it.
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Patent verdict no reason to worry about Linux

Posted April 25, 2011 - 11:00 am

A patent troll wins minor damages against Linux user Google. Don't write off Linux yet.
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Is Cloud Foundry something we need?

Posted April 13, 2011 - 7:43 am

Following the technology offerings in open source cloudspace is a bit challenging of late, what with all the PR and hype about "we're open!" flying about. What, then, are we to make of VMware's recent Cloud Foundry announcement?
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Red Hat shares soar after hours following Q4 results

Posted March 23, 2011 - 6:07 pm

Shares of Red Hat (NYSE: RHT) skyrocketed almost 11 percent in after-hours trading Wednesday following the release of the open-source software vendor's fiscal fourth quarter earnings report. (Also see: Red Hat Defends Kernel Code Obfuscation)
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Intel woes: Oracle ditches Itanium, mobility group chief quits

Posted March 23, 2011 - 11:30 am

Oracle became the third major developer to abandon high-end Itanium chips just as the guy leading its effort to catch ARM and Nvidia quits.
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Is it really a business vs. open source world?

Posted March 14, 2011 - 3:03 pm

Look at the news and the blogosphere, and lately it seems like every major distro company's in some kind of hot water with various elements of the community. Is it an inevitable product of business involvement in FLOSS?
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Red Hat Defends Kernel Code Obfuscation

Posted March 4, 2011 - 5:34 pm

After watching Oracle eat away at Red Hat Enterprise Linux business with Oracle Enterprise Linux, Red Hat has decided to launch a competitive strategy with its RHEL source code that will make it more difficult for Oracle and other downstream RHEL-based distros to follow in RHEL's footsteps.
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RHEL 6 Marks Cloud as New Enterprise IT Turf

Posted November 10, 2010 - 3:08 pm

There's a lot to be said about what's new in the RHEL 6 release, but right off the bat it seems that cloud, which used to be touted as a separate feature for any given Linux distro, is baked right in to the RHEL 6 architecture.
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Why Oracle Wants LibreOffice to Succeed

Posted November 3, 2010 - 12:30 pm

OpenOffice.org developers are abandoning the project for LibreOffice... which may be exactly what Oracle wants.
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Red Hat v. Oracle: Which is More Standards Compliant?

Posted September 28, 2010 - 9:09 am

While the community discussion ramps up for licensing compliance, how are these dualing enterprise Linux players faring with LSB compliance?
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Are Platform Vendors Stealing Linux?

Posted September 24, 2010 - 2:02 pm

In the past two weeks, two major vendors--one hardware and one cloud--have (re-)announced their own Linux distributions. Their target: revenue from the platform and OS support.
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Oracle Tries to Un-commoditize Linux

Posted September 20, 2010 - 5:44 pm

I am not normally so harsh on new products, but this one is so ridiculously ill-conceived, Oracle's Linux division must think their customers are complete morons.
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Red Hat, Novell: Reading the Stock Market Tea Leaves

Posted March 22, 2010 - 9:44 am

Novell rejected Elliott's $2-billion acquisition bid over the weekend, and its stock is still high. Meanwhile, what's going on with Red Hat's stock, which is seeing unusual options activity in the days ahead of its next earnings call?
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SCO, Novell: 2004's Calling, They Want Their Legal Drama Back

Posted March 5, 2010 - 4:46 pm

This Monday, the trial between SCO and Novell officially starts, seven years to the month when SCO sued IBM and started the legal battle that annoyed us all. But no matter the outcome of SCO v. Novell, it's important to note: this is just the warm up.
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Red Hat Extends Open Source Conversation Beyond Technology

Posted January 26, 2010 - 6:20 pm

I know what you're thinking, because I thought the same thing when I read the news on the wire. Opensource.com? Really?
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An important Linux fix

Posted November 6, 2009 - 3:43 pm

It's not often that Linux needs to be fixed, but a recently discovered security problem does deserve your attention.
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A Peek into Carnegie-Mellon's Open Source Lab

Posted October 19, 2009 - 9:05 pm

The university has set up a computing lab for its students using all FOSS tools.
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