Blog Archive - December 2008



Red Hat, IBM, Others Form Web Services Test Forum

Red Hat continues its push for Web Services interoperability by helping to form the Web Services Test Forum (WSTF). In conjunction with IBM and others, the WSTF provides the Web Service community with an environment to develop and test interoperability scenarios against other Web Service...

 

Red Hat Increases Service Levels and Reduces Costs for Customers with Extended Update Support

Today we are introducing a new software maintenance service for our customers called Extended Update Support. Extended Update Support allows a customer with a large mission-critical deployment to reduce server administration and management costs by standardizing on a single update release of Red...

 

Red Hat Announces availability of Hibernate Search 3.1 community project on JBoss.org

Red Hat is pleased to announce the availability of Hibernate Search 3.1 on JBoss.org. This latest Hibernate project release provides improved performance, new features and an enhanced user experience over previous releases. New features in Hibernate Search 3.1 include: * Significant performance...

 

Java EE 5 Compatibility for JBoss Application Server

With last week’s JBoss Application Server 5.0 release from the JBoss.org Community now out, the test results are in, they’ve been reviewed, and now it is officially confirmed: JBoss Application Server is Java EE 5 Certified. JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, Red Hat’s supported application...

 

Sound Investment

Today, JasperSoft, a leading Open Source Business Intelligence software vendor and a Red Hat Exchange RHX partner, announced that it has secured $12.5 million in venture funding and we are pleased to be a part of that group of investors. This investment is part of a strategy to help support a...

 

CIOs Recognize Red Hat for Lowering IT Costs

While many hit the voting booth this past election season to cast their ballot for president, there was another vote being tallied across U.S. CIOs and senior IT executives. The vote is in….more than 560 CIOs ranked Red Hat as a top vendor for helping their organizations lower IT costs. In CIO...

 

JBoss Enterprise Application Platform Expands to over 45 Certified Configurations

In an effort to continue our commitment toward platform compatibility, portability & interoperability, with our latest Cumulative Patch (CP) release of JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, we’ve significantly increased the number of Certified & Compatible configurations from 29 to 45. Although...

 

Where’s Red Hat this December?

North America We’re down to our last few events before closing out what has been a very busy 2008. Red Hat has attended hundreds of events this year and we’re looking forward to an action-packed 2009. Red Hat’s Andy Cathrow, product marketing manager, will participate in a panel discussion...

 

Collaboration at work: Alfresco Share / Red Hat Solution

The problem—In today’s global business model companies need a way for their employees to efficiently and effectively collaborate, while overcoming the challenges posed by different locations and time zones. Critical project documents often get lost or looked over in busy email in-boxes, creating...