Blog Archive - February 2008



Longhaus Researcher Acknowledges the Benefits of RHN Satellite

Ask anyone working in a complex enterprise IT environment and chances are they’ll agree that there are never enough resources to meet the demands of the business. Too much time and money is being spent on managing existing IT systems, rather than proactively developing new systems to deliver...

 

Introducing RHQ: Management Middleware

Management software has typically fallen into one of two categories: big, integrated, and expensive or small, disjoint, and unconnected. Neither of these models are sufficient to meet the needs of all communities. On top of that, there hasn’t been an easy-to-use open source infrastructure to...

 

Another View on Open Source for CIOs

I just reviewed David Carr’s article on the top 50 open source tools for CIOs to consider. It provides another perspective on how CIOs should view open source and how the environment for open source solutions is changing rapidly. The economic challenges faced by most organizations reinforce the...

 

Visit Us at HIMSS08

The Red Hat healthcare team is at HIMSS08 in Orlando this week. We’re excited about our partnership with One Laptop Per Child, which will enable the donation of additional laptops and educational material to children in developing countries. Our partners AMD, DLT and Vivat have been working with...

 

Datamation and the SIIA Codie Awards Recognize Value in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 was released almost a year ago, in March 2007. Our customer response has been overwhelmingly positive; it has been a catalyst for more and more companies to adopt open source infrastructure. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 is the core of our Linux Automation architecture,...

 

Introducing JBoss DNA

The JBoss DNA project is building an enterprise repository to capture, version, manage and understand the numerous kinds of metadata used in software systems.Why an enterprise repository? Plain and simple: there’s so much information and metadata going into software systems that it’s difficult to...

 

Red Hat Statement on Microsoft Announcement

Eight years ago the U.S. regulatory authorities, and four years ago the European regulators made clear to Microsoft that its refusal to disclose interface information for its monopoly software products violates the law. So, it is hardly surprising to see even Microsoft state today that...

 

JBoss Innovator of the Year Announced at JBoss World Orlando

During this year’s very successful JBoss World event, which took place last week in Orlando, Fla., I was given the opportunity to meet and exchange stories with some of Red Hat and JBoss’ most distinguished customers. Our customers were at the event to speak with our engineers and developers,...

 

Welcome, oVirt

In the middle of the great discussions and conferences taking place at JBoss World, Orlando, Red Hat quietly leaked out the first cut of what is likely to influence the future of virtualization. Project oVirt. oVirt’s aim is to transform the host virtualization layer into a small stateless image...

 

Red Hat Introduces Publican

Free software is becoming increasingly popular with non-technical users and, as a result, good documentation is becoming more important. The greatest barrier to achieving good, free documentation has not been a lack of interested contributors, but the difficulty of the tools required to create...

 
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