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Thursday
09Oct
Red Hat: It's the value, stupid
October 9, 2008 By Matt Asay (CNET Blogs)
First off, while it wasn't a joy fest for Red Hat today at the NYSE, I was surprised to learn that CIOs are still upbeat, at least as far as Red Hat is concerned. Cormier told me, "I had so many people say to me today, 'Wow! I get it.'"
What is "it"?
"It," as each executive told me in turn, is value. When I asked whether enterprises buy Red Hat technologies primarily because of open source, Cormier responded, "No. It's the value. It's completely value. The fact that it's open source helps, but it's really value."
Wednesday
08Oct
Red Hat looks to mainstream markets for growth
October 8, 2008 By Elizabeth Montalbano (ComputerWorld)
At a Red Hat analyst event in New York, which was available via webcast, Whitehurst said that although Red Hat does well with "companies that use technology for competitive advantage," mainstream companies that don't care about being on the leading edge of technology adoption are still largely an untapped market for the vendor.
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Red Hat Tuesday
07Oct
Red Hat to adopt Qumranet desktop virtualization products
October 7, 2008 By Charles Babcock (InformationWeek)
Many observers of virtualization in the data center believe that the next step will be to virtualize desktops on central servers as well. If that day is coming, Red Hat wants to offer the option of virtualizing desktops from a Linux server as well as Windows Servers.
The KVM engine may offer some efficiencies in running virtual machines that Citrix XenServer and VMware's ESX Server lack, Red Hat said.
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Red Hat Virtualization Friday
03Oct
Red Hat chases Redmond with HPC play
October 3, 2008 By Timothy Prickett Morgan (The Register)
Today, Red Hat announced the global availability of its Red Hat HPC Solution, which is a mix of the current Enterprise Linux 5.2 from Red Hat and an OEMed version of Platform Computing's Open Cluster Stack 5, a set of open source cluster management tools that Platform, a pioneer in grid computing, created from its experience with its proprietary Load Service Facility (LSF) tool for managing jobs running on grids.
Thursday
02Oct
At what price will Oracle start sniffing around Red Hat again?
October 2, 2008 By Matt Asay (CNET Blogs)
The financial markets being what they are, companies like Red Hat can nail their quarter (indeed, years of quarters) and still get pounded on Wall Street. Red Hat has been pummeled down to $15 per share.
At what point - or, rather, at what price - does Oracle give up its Quixotic Unbreakable Linux quest and simply buy the real thing?
Tuesday
23Sep
What's Red Hat doing in the virtualization business?
September 23, 2008 By Steven J. Vaughan-nichols (CIO)
Now that Red Hat owns Qumranet, Scott Crenshaw, Red Hat's VP of the Platform Business Unit, explains that Red Hat made the move for three reasons. First, to "accelerate time to market for a broad virtualization solution;" then to keep KVM open source, and further the investment in it." And, finally to "extend our virtualization product line into the VDI (Virtual Desktop Infrastructure) market."
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Red Hat Virtualization Wednesday
17Sep
Red Hat stonewalls on Microsoft interoperability plans
September 17, 2008 By Pam Derringer (IT Knowledge Exchange)
Novell Inc.’s recent coup of achieving bidirectional virtualization with Microsoft’s Hyper-V — SUSE Linux Enterprise can run as a guest on Hyper-V and Hyper-V on SUSE — is a huge step forward for interoperability.
Novell’s accomplishment begs for a response from Raleigh, N.C.-based Red Hat Inc., the largest open source vendor, which, publicly at least, has remained totally aloof from Microsoft, which, like it or not, has an overwhelming share of the server market.
Thursday
04Sep
Red Hat acquires way into Windows game
September 4, 2008 By Matt Asay (CNET Blogs)
In a statement, Red Hat claims that it "can now deliver what virtualization-only vendors cannot: a comprehensive solution integrated with the operating system, which can drive down IT costs while simultaneously enhancing the flexibility and responsiveness of IT infrastructure." Nice, but the the more interesting news embedded in the Qumranet acquisition is the Windows management technology that comes with it.
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Red Hat Virtualization Wednesday
03Sep
Red Hat's Project Spacewalk could make it the hub in the open-source wheel
September 3, 2008 By Matt Asay (CNET Blogs)
Back in early 2007 Red Hat let slip that it was planning to release its Red Hat Network code as an open-source project. In June of 2008, Red Hat officially announced that Red Hat Network Satellite would be open sourced.
Last week, Red Hat posted an update on the project, now called Project Spacewalk.
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Red Hat Monday
18Aug
Open source: An open question for Red Hat and others
August 18, 2008 By Aaron Ricadela (BusinessWeek)
It's been tough lately for companies like Red Hat and Novell that bet their business on open source. Here's a look at the haves and the have-nots.
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