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The next release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is in beta. The release notes give a clue as to what’s coming in RHEL 5.5, including improvements to virtualization and support for new platforms from Intel, AMD, and IBM’s Power7. Three years ago Red Hat launched an effort to sell partners open source solutions — it didn’t work out as well as they had originally planned, proof that an open source app store doesn’t actually work. Red Hat has launched opensource.com as a community site for open source. The Drupal powered site has been created by Red Hat but Jim Whitehurst, Red Hat’s President and CEO, says “This will not be a site for Red Hat, about Red Hat. Instead this will be a site for open source, about the future”. [...] In an effort to keep up with the demand for Red Hat software and services, Red Hat’s Advanced Partner, LinuxIT, in the UK has more than tripled its Red Hat Certifications in 2009. Some lawsuits take longer than others to settle — just ask Linux vendor Red Hat. From the ‘How Linux Vendors Make $’ files: Next year’s US Red Hat Summit 2010 will take place in conjunction with JBoss World in Boston, Massachusetts from the 22nd to the 25th of June, 2010. While Red Hat acquired JBoss in April of 2006, the two events have only been linked since 2009. The JBoss World site has yet to be updated to [...] Red Hat has invested in EnterpriseDB, the two companies confirmed today. The move accelerates EnterpriseDB’s momentum with big-name partners and also gives Red Hat a hedge against the pending Oracle-Sun-MySQL business combination that awaits regulatory approval. Here’s some more analysis. Red Hat and Microsoft have mutually certified each other’s virtualisation solutions. Last February the two competitors announced the collaboration. The two firms say they took this step in response to market demand for greater interoperability in heterogeneous IT environments. The companies are also collaborating in support of various combinations of operating systems. American Linux distributor Red Hat has reported a total revenue of $183.6 million for its 2010 fiscal year second quarter ending on the 31st of August, 2009 – an increase of over $20 million compared to the same quarter just one year ago. According to the companies second quarter results, subscription revenue for the quarter [...] Videos, some keynote speeches and talks and PDFs of many of the presentations given at the Red Hat Summit 2009 and JBoss World Chicago 2009 conferences, held in parallel last week, are now available from the conference websites. Linux vendor Red Hat sure doesn’t seem to like Microsoft much. Red Hat is now alleging that Microsoft is not committed to the path of peace with open source software vendors. After placing its bets for years on Xen, Red Hat moved recently towards official support for KVM, the virtualization hypervisor built into the Linux kernel. Here’s a look at what this change might mean for Ubuntu, which has promoted KVM from the beginning. Red Hat (NYSE:RHT) today officially launched the GateIN portal project on its JBoss.org project site. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4 was just released, but Red Hat engineers have already been working on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.0 and today a few details regarding this next major feature release were learned during the Red Hat Summit in Chicago. Details regarding RHEL 6.0 are scant, especially with Red Hat being a public [...] Red Hat is pleased to announce the availability of the 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.” When the Red Hat Summit (and the associated JBoss World) conferences kick off Sept. 1 in Chicago, The VAR Guy will be watching closely for new channel and partner developments — some of them involving Qumranet, Cisco Systems, EnterpriseDB and Alfresco. In fact, here are five key Red Hat trends our resident blogger expects [...] In an eWEEK interview, Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst says his company is “defining a whole new business model” by applying collaborative principles similar to those behind Facebook and Wikipedia. Whitehurst speaks out on open source business models, RHEL 5.4’s KVM hypervisor, and the cloud. Red Hat within the next few weeks — and possibly before Red Hat Summit (Sept. 1-4, Chicago) — plans to make major enhancements to the company’s channel partner program. Heading up to the announcement, Red Hat continues to work more closely with the Open Source Channel Alliance. Here’s the scoop from The VAR Guy. | |||||
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