Blog Archive - January 2008



Red Hat Supports International SOA Patterns Project

SOA Design Patterns, an upcoming book authored by noted SOA expert Thomas Erl, has taken a page from the open source community by allowing feedback from vendors, academic institutions, standards organizations and practitioners to help shape the first catalog of design patterns dedicated to SOA....

 

What is a Software Appliance?

A new breed of appliance is emerging. Not unlike their kitchen counterparts, the goal in using these appliances is to plug them in and use them, not to spend hours installing them, configuring them, tuning them and maintaining them.These appliances are built using software.Software Appliances...

 

Keep Your Eye on Red Hat in 2008

20_icon It’s no secret that Red Hat has a lot to offer customers, partners and the entire open source ecosystem. Red Hat has long been at the core of a multi-billion dollar (and growing) open source industry. We changed the dynamic of the technology industry and delivered tremendous value to...

 

McKesson Uses Red Hat Enterprise Linux to Reduce Costs for Healthcare Providers

Recently, both ComputerWorld and InformationWeek discussed McKesson’s move from AIX and Unix to Red Hat Enterprise Linux. McKesson has migrated 50 of its 70 applications to Red Hat, and plans to migrate the remainder within the next two years. As Michael Simpson, SVP/GM of Horizon Clinicals, ...

 

Introducing Paul Frields as Fedora Project Leader

Now that we’re a few months past the Fedora 8 release, and we’ve produced another successful FUDCon, this time in Raleigh, NC, the time has come for our current Fedora Project Leader, Max Spevack, to hand off his role to a new advocate. We welcome Paul Frields, who will assume this role in...

 

Migrating Your Personal Application Portfolio to Open Source

If you are a CIO, you may already be invested in open source applications at home. Or, like many, you may be a very busy person just using the applications that came with your personal computer, scanner, printer or camera and haven’t really considered the wealth of personal open source...

 

Red Hat Directory Server 8.0 Released Today

Shortly after purchasing the technologies from AOL/Netscape, we opened the source for Red Hat Directory Server in the summer of 2005. Since then, the Fedora Directory Server project has attracted attention and contributions from the community and is now also at the heart of a broader community...

 

Make Sure You are Planning for Mobility

Mobility has become a pervasive element of information technology solutions. Whether it’s voice, email, text messages, intranet access, applications for mobile devices, support for remote workers, or some other mobile feature, all information solutions are starting to exhibit mobility....

 

JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 4.3 Is Here

On Tuesday January 8, our awesome JBoss development team released JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 4.3. Kudos to the entire team for another great effort! JBoss EAP 4.3 was a customer-driven release. The top two requests from our JBoss EAP 4.2 customers were to upgrade our messaging and web...

 

FUDCon Comes Home to Raleigh

From Friday, January 11 through Sunday, January 13, the Fedora Project will be holding its annual FUDCon event at Red Hat‘s Raleigh, NC headquarters. FUDCon is the “Fedora Users and Developers Conference” — a time when members of the Fedora community who usually only communicate via email or IRC...

 
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