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Red Hat: "Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced General H. Hugh Shelton (U.S. Army Retired) has been elected to serve as chairman of Red Hat's board of directors."
Cyber Cynic: "Get over it people. Red Hat is not getting acquired anytime soon. I know, I know, you'd heard all the rumors. Here's the truth as I see it: If Red Hat gets acquired anytime soon, I'll eat my fedora. It's not happening."
Cyber Cynic: "Last week, Greg DeKoenigsberg, a former Red Hat developer on the Fedora community Linux project and now CTO of The Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education (ISKME), ignited a firestorm by showing that, when it comes to code, Red Hat does far more for open-source projects..."
Delimiter: "Max McLaren has for the past five years been pushing the cause of open source software in Australia in his role as general manager of Red Hat in Australia and New Zealand."
Greg DeKoenigsberg Speaks: "If you doubt, for a nanosecond, that Canonical is a marketing organization masquerading as an engineering organization, then you're either an unapologetic Ubuntu fanboy or you're not paying attention"
Datamation: "Linux vendor Red Hat is out this week with the second major milestone for the next generation of its enterprise Linux release, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (RHEL), as the Linux player ramps up development for its flagship operating system"
eSecurityPlanet: "At the Red Hat Summit in Boston last week, Josh Bressers, a senior security engineer at Red Hat, explained why open source really is the best model for building secure software."
The second public beta release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.0 comes with separate installation images for servers and workstations and an updated Linux kernel: "The Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 beta 2 release is now available for download. Beta 2 includes an updated installer, new technologies and....
Red Hat is openly badgering large, IT-driven organizations to move away from comfortable patterns and to adopt what they believe to be the best virtualization platform, the best cloud API, the best data storage mechanism, and so on.
The Motley Fool: "No, the sneaky sales strength of Red Hat comes from a habit of landing long-term contracts with only small payments due at signing."
Netstat -vat: "Microsoft and Red Hat, Linux and Windows aren't supposed to get along right? But they do..."
Datamation: "The last three months have been good ones for Red Hat. The enterprise Linux vendor reported its first-quarter fiscal 2011 financial results this week, showing growth coming from all sides..."
Datamation: "The past year has been a good one for Linux vendor Red Hat, and as it looks forward to its fiscal 2011, the outlook remains strong."
MSPMentor: "Red Hat CEO Jim Whiteshurst says his company has found a back door into the small business market. Perhaps surprisingly, it doesn't really involve desktop Linux."
The VAR Guy: "When Red Hat Summit starts June 22 in Boston, Red Hat will maintain a careful virtualization balancing act. During one session, Red Hat and Microsoft will discuss how they work together on virtualization. But during a separate session, Red Hat will describe how Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV) offers cost advantages over both VMware and Microsoft Hyper-V."
nixCraft: "KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) is a full virtualization solution for Linux on x86 hardware containing virtualization extensions Intel VT or AMD-V. How do I install KVM under CentOS or Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 5.5?"
The VAR Guy: "When Red Hat Summit and JBoss World kick off June 22 in Boston, The VAR Guy expects Microsoft, Cisco Systems and IBM to be on hand for conference announcements and presentations."
The VAR Guy: "Novell is using a surround-and-conquer strategy to compete against RHEV, which is still a fledgling virtualization option."
Red Hat is the king of commercial Linux support, no doubt about it. Canonical has entered the market and with some refined support products could present a very compelling alternative. Is it enough to make the company profitable long term, though?
nixCraft: "How do I setup NFS v4.0 distributed file system access server under CentOS / RHEL v5.x for sharing files with UNIX and Linux workstations? How to export a directory with NFSv4? How to mount a directory with NFSv4?"
The Register: "Red Hat's CEO Jim Whitehurst declined to dismiss the possibility of buying out his company's Linux rival Novell in a meeting with reporters in London today."
LWN.net: "Red Hat has published [PDF] a white paper covering the state of security for the first five years of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4"
Triangle Business Journal: "Matthew Szulik, chairman of Red Hat's board of directors, is stepping down in August after his term expires"
InfoWorld: "But none of the aforementioned companies nor their free offerings would constitute open source companies, at least as defined by Paul Cormier, Red Hat's president of products and technologies, in a recent interview."
CIO Update: "Open source vendor Red Hat is betting on a year-old open source effort that it hopes will further open up the Cloud."
Groklaw: "I know the first thing you wanted to know after you heard that Red Hat and Novell had prevailed and the jury had found that IP Innovation's patents were worthless was this: did we at Groklaw help when we did prior art searching? The answer is, Yes. It turns out that you did."
The H Open: "Red Hat has published a reminder that version 3 of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) reaches its end-of-life (EOL) date on the 31st of October, 2010."
ServerWatch: "Sitting at the heart of every Linux OS distribution is a Linux kernel. When it comes to the upcoming Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6 release, the issue of which kernel is being used is not a cut and dried answer, however."
Datamation: "Think you can scare Linux vendors into submission with a patent challenge? Think again. Linux vendors Novell and Red Hat have won a patent verdict in a Texas jury trial."