Blog Archive - February 2009



Red Hat Hires Middleware Industry Veteran Steve Hess

Today we are pleased to announce that Steve Hess has joined Red Hat. Steve will serve as senior director for product management in the JBoss Middleware Business Unit, and joins our team after spending the last eight years at BEA Systems/Oracle. By attracting industry veterans like Steve and...

 

Open Source Innovation Strikes Again

Those of you who know me well know that I like to wax on about a day 15 years ago in the labs at Digital Equipment Corp. It was the day I had my “AHA!” moment, when we were hacking on a Linux/Intel combo and hit performance levels surpassing our flagship UNIX/RISC enterprise product. I knew then...

 

What’s on Brian’s Mind? Qumranet & Virtualization

This news story is presented in video format. Click the title to watch.

 

Red Hat and IBM Celebrate 10 Years of Global Partnership

Today we are celebrating a momentous occasion. Ten years ago today, Red Hat and IBM began our global collaborative partnership to expand the use of enterprise solutions on Linux. It was a small but important start to announce that IBM would run Red Hat Linux on its industry-standard systems. Back...

 

Bigger Opportunity for Channel Partners

On Monday we made a significant announcement that we believe will have a positive and lasting impact on our Red Hat partner community. We announced that we will be working together with Microsoft to ensure interoperability of our respective virtualization platforms. Both companies signed...

 

Prove it!

One of the stated goals for Red Hat’s channel team is to move more business through our channel ecosystem. We are working everyday to make that happen and to ensure that our partners and by extension their customers are successful with our full portfolio of open source solutions. One of the ways...

 

Red Hat Moves to Expand Server Virtualization Interoperability

Today we made an announcement that I think is going to generate a lot of interest. Red Hat and Microsoft are working together to ensure virtualization interoperability. This is big news. Companies deploy virtualization to make their infrastructure more efficient. By allowing Windows Server to run...

 

JBDS 2.0: Increasing Red Hat’s Value

In 2007, we launched JBoss Developer Studio 1.0 our first Eclipse-based integrated development environment. This was a significant product announcement for many reasons; it marked Red Hat’s first entry into development tooling, it combined tooling with runtime and most importantly JBDS 1.0...

 

State of the Union at Red Hat

I wanted to take a quick moment to provide a brief “State of the Union” for Red Hat. I’ve been on the job at Red Hat since December 2007, and have had the opportunity to meet hundreds of Red Hat customers, partners, associates and industry leaders. In keeping with the U.S. presidential State of...

 

FUDCon, Spotlights and F11 Alpha

The great thing about the Fedora community is that when there’s work to be done, people roll up their sleeves and pitch in. That’s exactly what happened at the most recent Fedora Users and Developers Conference (FUDCon) in Boston a couple weeks ago, where volunteers banded together to provide...

 
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