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When Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 launched, it contained more than just new software. It also offered customers a substantially streamlined service-level agreement (SLA).

Red Hat vice... More...

A holiday gift arrived early at Red Hat Wednesday when the company announced that its financial results for the quarter had surpassed analysts' expectations.

According to the Raleigh, N.C.-based commercial... More...

a successful Oracle Unbreakable Linux support program might appear to threaten Red Hat Inc., whose Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) Oracle Corp. has cloned and which it now supports for 50% less than Red Hat's cheapest package.

And now Oracle says it has acquired 1... More...

On Thursday, Raleigh, N.C.-based Red Hat Inc. released its Red Hat Enterprise MRG platform, three separate subscriptions that collectively add advanced messaging, real-time computing and grid computing to... More...

Raleigh, N.C.-based Red Hat Inc. has released a minor update to the Red Hat Network (RHN) Satellite a subscription-based systems management application that provisions, configures and updates... More...

EDAC selects Red Hat as recommended platform

Red Hat Inc. announced today that the Electronic Design Automation Consortium has selected Red Hat Enterprise Linux as its recommended... More...

Red Hat Inc. announced today that it has signed an agreement with Sun Microsystems Inc. to advance the development of open source Java software. Part of the agreement will see... More...
IT managers running Red Hat Linux should think carefully before making the switch to Unbreakable Linux, the new Linux distribution that Oracle Corp. announced last month.

To date, there is very... More...

Ubuntu and Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) may be growing faster than Novell's SUSE equivalent. But you can't prove it by Alfresco Software Inc.'s latest member survey.

This week, Alfresco, a... More...
around for Linux distros
Invitrogen considered Oracle Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Enterprise Linux as well as Novell SUSE and quickly eliminated Oracle because of its small market share. RHEL and SUSE appeared technologically equivalent, but when... More...
progression for Oracle, given its stated efforts to wrest away market share from Red Hat Inc. in the enterprise Linux space. "It shows they're gaining some traction," he said.

However, Iams was quick to point out that the ISV list provided by Oracle encompasses... More...

nGenius Express network and application performance management appliance for Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

The appliance includes nGenius Performance Manager 2.0.1 software running on a hardened RHEL server, that complements a Windows version of this... More...

grade version of Linux from a distributor. And that may be a lengthy wait, in some cases.

Red Hat Inc., the leading Linux distributor, is on a 12- to 18-month release cycle with Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and the 3.0 version was just released in October. Red Hat has said that... More...

Red Hat Inc. took the first step this week toward the inclusion of Security Enhanced Linux in its enterprise offerings when it released Fedora Core 2, test2.

The latest beta of ... More...

than our college dorm orange-and-milk-crate furniture. Sure, some IT shops -- angered by Red Hat's enterprise strategy -- will move to Debian. Overall, however, businesses embrace the old standard of a "safe" and "supported" brand name operating system. Is it... More...

There is a new open source software legal battle brewing. It concerns Red Hat Inc., JBoss, which is now a division of Red Hat, and a relatively unknown company called FireStar Software Inc. This lawsuit alleges that JBoss' Hibernate 3.0 infringes on a... More...

open source application servers out there. Ever since -- and especially since -- Red Hat bought JBoss, they've been able to position it to be much more competitive with WebSphere Community Edition. Red Hat customers should note that the company has expanded... More...
VMware, Red Hat and other vendors would have you think the future of operating system distribution lies within a virtual appliance, but reality isn't as cut and dried as they'd have you... More...
that will allow it to grow and scale as needed in the future."

Target: Redmond and Red Hat

Novell's latest offer should also entice Microsoft users who are looking for a less expensive alternative to proprietary software. In addition to the pricing... More...

is a daunting task. To gain that understanding, says Mark Webbink, general counsel for Red Hat, one first needs to understand the true legal implications of words like patent, copyright, proprietary and open. After that, students of software law can get into more... More...
declined. So in 2005, Sapotek moved to a commercial version of Linux: Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL).

Rand purchased the licenses and support for the company's five-compute node system -- all 64-bit Intel-Xeon based Dell 1U servers, plus an EMC Corp... More...

on just how restricted it will keep JeOS closer to its release on Oct. 18.

Going after Red Hat, SUSE
Ideas' Iams said while there was nothing unique about an Ubuntu-based virtual appliance - Red Hat and Novell Inc. have similar strategies in place - Ubuntu's... More...
of computers and telecommunications, to a resolution that included one part Red Hat Linux, one part IBM on the Power processing architecture and one part Cisco Systems for the university's enterprise resource planning needs.

With the work officially... More...

hardware. The report also suggests that support concerns will wane over time as Red Hat Inc. and Novell Inc. bring their services and support offerings to prices comparable to those of proprietary vendors.

"Ninety-four percent of open source users either... More...

First Trust decided to use HP's Itanium 2-based Integrity servers running Red Hat Advanced Server 2.1 software with an Oracle 9i Real Application Cluster.

First Trust bought four boxes. The company put two into production and is using two as... More...

SUSE White Papers
Collaboration and Messaging Best Practices: Linux Desktop Migration by Red Hat
of everyday applications are available in a Linux desktop environment. You can do anything with Linux that you can with Windows. Try the Linux alternative offered through the IBM® Open Collaboration Client Solution (OCCS). A desktop or laptop capabilities can be classified into...
Booting over Infiniband for Consolidation Savings: Using Sun x64 Servers, Sun HPC Software Linux Edition, and Mellanox ConnectX Technologies by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
using Sun x64 servers, Sun HPC Software, Linux Edition, and Mellanox ConnectX technology. This proof of concept exercise demonstrated the feasibility of implementing BoIB using Sun x64 servers, Sun HPC Software, Linux Edition and Mellanox ConnectX technology. Booting...
Top Use-Cases for Replication Demand Integration with Backup and Restore Capabilities by CommVault Systems, Inc.
is deployed with UNIX systems while Windows and Linux environments commonly run host-based software replication. In this paper, DCIG considers the specialized requirements of using host-based software replication in combination with data protection. Generalized statements...
Linux Security Corner
Collaboration and Messaging Best Practices: Linux Desktop Migration by Red Hat
You may wonder what sorts of everyday applications are available in a Linux desktop environment. You can do anything with Linux that you can with Windows. Try the Linux alternative offered through the IBM® Open Collaboration Client Solution...
Red Hat/IBM Free Lotus Notes Live DVD Install Guide by Red Hat
Lotus on Linux is a secure collaboration and messaging platform. It's a simple, easy and affordable way for small and mid-sized business to enjoy enterprise performance and...
IBM and Red Hat: Security-Rich Collaboration and Messaging Platform by Red Hat
IBM and Red Hat have a single, security-rich collaboration and messaging platform that makes it simple, easy, and affordable to improve organizational productivity and effectiveness. It is much more than a...