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Red Hat Files New Brief in Software Patent Case

The fight against software patents got a big boost yesterday when one Linux company filed an amicus brief with the US Supreme Court urging it to uphold last year's Bilski vs. Doll decision in the Federal appeals court.

Submitted Brian Proffitt on Fri, 10/02/2009 - 14:43.
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Red Hat: Linux Pays Off - And Isn't Bloated

Good news for Red Hat..."The recession is proving to be an opportune time for Linux vendor Red Hat as it continues to grow revenues and earnings. According to Red Hat executives, the growth is coming at the expense of rivals and as a result of customer confidence in the abilities of Linux and Red Hat's JBoss middleware platform.
Submitted internetnews on Fri, 09/25/2009 - 14:01.
Tagged with Business model | Red Hat | Distributions | The Linux Kernel
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openSUSE Build System: Building RPM Packages

Last time around we talked about the openSUSE Build System (OBS), how it can build packages for a range of Linux distributions from openSUSE, Fedora, Ubuntu, Mandriva, through to the enterprise offerings SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop (SLED) and Red Hat Enterprise. This time we'll get our hands dirty by rolling a package for siproxd version 0.7.1.... [more]
Submitted Ben Martin on Fri, 09/04/2009 - 16:02.
Tagged with Fedora | Linux Foundation LDN Featured Articles | openSUSE Build System | packaging | Red Hat | rpm | Packaging | General | Locally Generated Content
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RHEL 5.4 Story Avoids Sad Vendor Lock-In Ending for Clouds

The big news coming out of Red Hat for this year's Red Hat Summit is, at first blush, a little anti-climatic. The release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4 seems like just another point release for an already stable and successful operating system. A few more bells and whistles, but not much to get users carried away.

Submitted Brian Proffitt on Thu, 09/03/2009 - 20:40.
Tagged with Red Hat | RHEL 5.4 | virtualization | Operations-SystemAdministration | Porting issues | Porting utilities
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Red Hat Launches Catalyst Program to Spur Ecosystem Collaboration

A new vendor program is launched..."Red Hat on Sept. 1 announced the North American launch of its Red Hat Catalyst Program that will "include an interactive Web portal to facilitate the formation of a community around Red Hat's entire partner ecosystem."
Submitted eWeek on Thu, 09/03/2009 - 18:11.
Tagged with applications | Red Hat
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Vendors Increasingly Control Leading Open-Source Projects

But this may not be a bad thing..."Given the momentum behind open source, and how it has grown through the economic downturn, it's not surprising that more and more vendors are getting involved to commercialize open-source projects. What is perhaps surprising, however, is how early in the open-source project lifecycle that commercialization is emerging, as Gartner indicates in a December 2008 report ('Predicts 2009: The Evolving Open-Source Software Model').... [more]
Submitted CNET on Thu, 08/06/2009 - 13:31.
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Red Hat Rakes in Big Bucks

Red Hat's 1Q results are pretty good..."Some companies, OK most companies, are in trouble, but Red Hat, the world's number one Linux company just keeps signing the customers and making the bucks.
Submitted ComputerWorld on Thu, 06/25/2009 - 15:31.
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.8 Now Available

Critical updates are a big part of this new release..."Today we released the eighth update to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4, marking the next step in the product’s seven-year lifecycle. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4, first shipped in February 2005, is now in the Production 2 lifecycle phase. With this, the focus of product updates in the future will shift away from providing significant code changes and focus on providing critical fixes and helping customers evolve their IT plans for eventu... [more]
Submitted Red Hat on Tue, 05/19/2009 - 13:27.
Tagged with Red Hat | RHEL | Distributions
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Red Hat, SanDisk Gain as Stocks Fall

Good news continues for Red Hat..."Stocks capped their worst week in two months on a down note Friday, but Red Hat  and SanDisk posted solid gains on analyst upgrades."Red Hat shares surged nearly 10% after Jefferies analyst Katherine Egbert said the company could become a takeover target for IBM as the company faces greater competition from Solaris in the merger of Oracle and Sun." [Read more at internetnews.com]... [more]
Submitted Community Manager on Mon, 05/18/2009 - 15:55.
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Red Hat CEO: 'The Cloud Belongs to Linux'

Linux is set to take the cloud by storm..."Which of these doesn't belong: Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Red Hat. If you said Red Hat, the company's CEO would beg to differ.
Submitted Community Manager on Tue, 05/05/2009 - 11:33.
Tagged with cloud computing | Red Hat | Operations-SystemAdministration
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