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October 21, 2008  3:21 PM

American Idol vs. Britney: Why open source will prevail, Red Hat says



Posted by: Dkr
desktops, Linux, Linux blogs and news, Linux versus Windows, Microsoft, Microsoft Windows, Open source applications, Red Hat, TechTarget Blogs

Red Hat CEO and supersalesman Jim Whitehurst sure knows how to keep things simple. In yet another global tour pitching Red Hat, Whitehurst compared the open source development model to American Idol, the TV show that propelled country singer Carrie...

October 15, 2008  11:01 PM

Linux Foundation caves to pressure, closes summit to press



Posted by: Dkr
Fedora Linux, Linux, Linux blogs and news, Open source applications, Red Hat, TechTarget Blogs

The Linux Foundation’s job is promote the use of Linux-based open source software, whose code is freely available for anyone to examine, modify and distribute as they please. Yet the foundation’s first


October 2, 2008  2:23 PM

‘Scientific’ Red Hat to crunch numbers of Hadron Collider



Posted by: Dkr
Linux, Open source applications, Red Hat, TechTarget Blogs

According to an article in Linux Today, CERN’s huge Large Hadron Collider, the largest atom smasher in the world, runs on a customized version...


September 25, 2008  5:29 PM

Red Hat quarterly earnings up 29% to $164.4 million



Posted by: Dkr
Linux, Linux blogs and news, Red Hat, TechTarget Blogs

Red Hat Inc. reported second-quarter revenues of $164.4 million, an increase of 29% in  quarterly revenue compared with a year ago, at $127.2 million. Deferred revenue rose somewhat faster, climbing 32% to $496.9 million. Quarterly profits also rose, but by a...


September 18, 2008  6:09 PM

Red Hat boosts open source at new CUNY lab, national campus tour



Posted by: Dkr
Fedora Linux, Linux, Linux blogs and news, Open source applications, Red Hat, TechTarget Blogs


September 16, 2008  6:45 PM

Red Hat stonewalls on Microsoft interoperability plans



Posted by: Dkr
Linux, Linux blogs and news, Microsoft Windows, Red Hat, SUSE/Novell, TechTarget Blogs, Virtualization, VMware

Novell Inc.’s recent coup of achieving bidirectional virtualization with Microsoft’s Hyper-V -- SUSE Linux Enterprise can run as a guest on Hyper-V and Hyper-V on SUSE -- is a huge step forward for...


September 9, 2008  7:12 PM

Red Hat mystifies with Qumranet purchase



Posted by: Dkr
Linux, Linux blogs and news, Linux desktops, Microsoft, Open source applications, Red Hat, TechTarget Blogs

Less than a week after Red Hat Inc.’s surprise $107 million purchase of Qumranet Inc., I remain mystified by this acquisition. Qumranet is the Israeli-based creator of the KVM open source hypervisor, which is incorporated...


August 29, 2008  2:39 PM

Strong Novell SUSE sales boost third quarter



Posted by: Dkr
Linux, Linux blogs and news, Open source applications, Red Hat, SUSE/Novell, TechTarget Blogs

Waltham, Mass.-based Novell Inc. reported solid revenue growth in its third-quarter earnings call yesterday, with net revenues of $245 million, up from $236 million for the second quarter of 2008 and from $237...


August 27, 2008  8:21 PM

Red Hat tight-lipped on breach, but risk appears small



Posted by: Dkr
authentication, DataCenter, Linux, Open source applications, Red Hat, Security, TechTarget Blogs

Red Hat Inc. has declined to provide additional details on last week’s security breach on some Fedora servers that were illegally accessed. Although Red Hat said it did not believe that the...


August 25, 2008  1:50 PM

Should VMware buy Red Hat?



Posted by: Dkr
IBM, Linux, Linux blogs and news, Open source applications, Red Hat, TechTarget Blogs, VMware

A recent Business Week article said...