Red Hat

Overheard - JBoss is Red Hat’s golden goose

Red Hat’s JBoss business is growing twice as fast as its Linux business, and it delivers $10 in consulting fees for every $1 in subscription revenue. This means that JBoss is much more interesting to Red Hat’s channel than Red Hat Enterprise Linux is. It also means that JBoss should be the foundation for Red Hat getting into the application business in earnest. Matt Asay, Red Hat: JBoss growing twice as fast as Linux

JEMS is available from Red Hat through subscriptions that include certified software, support, updates and patches, documentation and multi-year maintenance policies.

Note: I’m starting to hear “cloud services” being called “middleware” again.  Cloud computing = middleware as a service (MaaS)?  I don’t think it’ll stick.  The acronym is pronounced Mass and will just remind the user that when his stuff is in the cloud and he’s given up all that control,  he’d better pray.

Overheard: Red Hat will not be coming to your desktop

As a public, for-profit company, Red Hat must create products and technologies with an eye on the bottom line, and with desktops this is much harder to do than with servers. The desktop market suffers from having one dominant vendor, and some people still perceive that today’s Linux desktops simply don’t provide a practical alternative. Desktop team, What’s Going On With Red Hat Desktop Systems? An Update

Overheard: Tech acquisitions psychic predictions

“My money would go on IBM buying SUN at this point. But again, at the end of the day, Sun is a hardware company, despite noise to the contrary by pony-tail boy.” Marc Fleury, To consolidate or not to consolidate