Red Hat Thursday unveiled a new service aimed at making it more cost-effective for its customers to run and maintain one version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux for a longer period of time, reducing management and administration costs, the company said.
Extended Update Support (EUS), a new maintenance option for RHEL customers, allows them to standardize [...]

Linux distributor Red Hat invested in open-source business-intelligence vendor JasperSoft on Wednesday as part of a US$12.5 million round of funding for the company.
Red Hat is not disclosing its exact investment in JasperSoft, which offers a suite of open-source business intelligence products, including JasperServer, JasperAnalysis and JasperReports. JasperSoft also has a significant number of OEM [...]

Red Hat recently scrapped plans for a massive holiday party. Instead, the Raleigh, N.C., software company will donate the money it would have spent to a food charity chosen by employees. The move comes as the slumping economy is hurting philanthropic donations and increasing demand among the needy. “We felt it was the wrong time [...]

Novell today claimed to have more certified software partners than rival Linux providers. The chest pumping represents Novell’s latest thinly veiled attack against Red Hat. But take a closer look at Novell’s claims and you’ll see why Red Hat may take issue with some of Novell’s statements.
First, the good news for Novell: The company says [...]

Fujitsu and open source software company Red Hat have expanded their global alliance to provide Linux support services to extend the bug fix support periods for the update releases 5.2 and 5.3 of Red Hat Enterprise Linux software.
Read more at Datamonitor

Counting Linux users is no easy task since there is typically no requirement for users to register their installations. Yet Linux distributions do try and count users in an attempt to quantify their user base and relative footprint in the operating systems space.
Red Hat’s Fedora community Linux distribution has now tallied its user base, and [...]

Matthew Szulik, CEO of Red Hat from 1998 until late 2007 and now chairman of its supervisory board, has been honoured by the Ernst & Young business consultancy as the US Entrepreneur of the Year for 2008. He has also received an award as Entrepreneur of the Year in the Technology category.
Read more at heise [...]

Anuj Kumar, the new general manager, Middle East and Africa at Red Hat is a ten-year veteran with Red Hat and previously held responsibility for sales and marketing for enterprise customers
Red Hat has announced the expansion of its international presence with the opening of an office in Dubai. The new office will provide [...]

We’ll return to examining the state of Linux printing next week. Today I want to wonder aloud why all these big tough tech companies have Red Hat in their cross-hairs? Oracle, Microsoft, and now Novell all seemed determined to crush Red Hat like a bug. And yet Red Hat, despite being the largest and most [...]

Like many companies United National Breweries (UNB) took a decision some time ago to lease its IT equipment instead of buying it outright.
In line with that decision UNB’s national IT manager Kevern Upton says that its primary IT suppliers for its financial systems were Unisys, who took responsibility for the server hardware and operating system, [...]

Red Hat is pleased to announce the availability of the *beta*
release of 5.3 (kernel-2.6.18-120.el5) for the Red Hat Enterprise
Linux 5 family of products including:
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Advanced Platform for x86,
AMD64/Intel(r) 64, Itanium Processor Family, System p
and System z
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Server for x86,
AMD64/Intel(r) 64, Itanium Processor [...]

Red Hat is a leading technology vendor for its Linux platform and JBoss middleware lines of business. Though it has tremendous in-house technical expertise, Red Hat is actually going to a third party vendor for the technology needed to build the Web content management system for the new JBoss.org community website.
In so doing, Red Hat [...]

Ina Fried has an interview with “Microsoft’s top intellectual property lawyer”, Horacio Gutierrez, and Gutierrez directly threatens to sue any company, like Red Hat, that refuses to sell out and do a patent deal like the one Novell signed up for:
“If every effort to license proves not to be fruitful, ultimately [...]

The global economic crisis would provide a boost for open source software, Red Hat chief executive Jim Whitehurst claimed during a visit to Sydney this week.
Whitehurst, who stopped over down under as part of a tour of the Asia-Pacific region, said in an interview with ZDNet Asia’s sister site ZDNet Australia that the crisis would [...]

James M Whitehurst, CEO and president, Red Hat, on his recent visit to India talks to CyberMedia News on many red-hot issues around open source technology and its business colours. Like, how to make money out of something free and open? Like why OOXML won’t make a dent enough? Like why India is on a [...]

As I walked through the war zone that is Wall Street yesterday on my way to a Red Hat meeting, I assumed the worst. I scanned the rooftops for Paul Cormier, Red Hat’s EVP of Products and Technologies, ready to catch him if leaped. I scanned the cardboard boxes along the pavement, expecting to see [...]

Expanding Linux adoption beyond key vertical markets is an important driver for Red Hat Inc.’s growth, which remains steady even as one of its strongest customer sectors — financial services — is getting hit hard by the U.S. crisis, the company’s CEO, Jim Whitehurst, said Tuesday.
At a Red Hat analyst event in New [...]

Obama is campaigning for change. McCain is campaigning for change. And now, Red Hat is campaigning for change. The software company will spend next week evangelizing the government’s growing need for open source. It’s a smart, timely move by Red Hat. Here’s why.
The VAR Guy complains when open source companies ignore key vertical market events. [...]

Red Hat today announced the availability of its High Performance Computing Solution, based around a special edition of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2 (RHEL) and a bundled copy of Platform Computing’s Open Cluster Stack 5 (OCS) cluster provisioning and management package. There is also a standalone version of just the OS component, Red Hat Enterprise [...]

Matt Asay (not pictured), the man behind CNet’s Open Road blog, speculates that Oracle could go shopping for Red Hat because Red Hat shares are trading near a 52-week low. Alas, The VAR Guy agrees: Oracle has deep pockets and Red Hat would be a good buy for the company. But The VAR Guy hopes [...]