Tag Archives: Red Hat

Daily Links for Wednesday, December 24, 2009

Posted on December 24, 2009 by Bob Sutor

Open Source Red Hat Revenues Up 18 Percent in Q3 eWeek / Darryl K. Taft Red Hat reported financial results for its fiscal year 2010 third quarter, showing revenues up 18 percent. For its third quarter ended November 30, 2009, … Continue reading →

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Daily Links for Friday, December 11, 2009

Posted on December 11, 2009 by Bob Sutor

Cloud IBM: LotusLive paying subscribers go from 0 to 18 million in a year ZDNet / Larry Dignan That LotusLive tally at the beginning of the year was nil so the growth is stunning. I double checked with IBM to … Continue reading →

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Daily Links for Tuesday, November 3, 2009 – Red Hat Edition

Posted on November 3, 2009 by Bob Sutor

Open Source Red Hat Rolls Out Virtualization Platform for Heterogeneous Servers and Clouds Reuters Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced the general availability of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization for Servers, the … Continue reading →

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Daily Links for Sunday, November 1, 2009

Posted on November 1, 2009 by Bob Sutor

Software Microsoft to indirectly fund L.A.’s switch to Google Apps Seattle Post-Intelligencer / Nick Eaton Talk about irony. Of the $7.2 million the Los Angeles city government will be spending to switch its e-mail system to Google Apps, $1.5 million … Continue reading →

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2009 Red Hat Virtual Experience

Posted on October 14, 2009 by Bob Sutor

Just got a notice about the 2009 Red Hat Virtual Experience to be held on December 9. From the webpage: Join us December 9, 2009 for the Red Hat Virtual Experience, an event focused on Red Hat Enterprise Linux solutions, … Continue reading →

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Daily Links for Monday, October 12, 2009

Posted on October 12, 2009 by Bob Sutor

Open Source Banco Pastor Reduces Costs, Increases Scalability and Boosts Performance with Red Hat, SAP and IBM Solutions Red Hat (NYSE:RHT), the world`s leading provider of open source solutions, and IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that Banco Pastor, the seventh … Continue reading →

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Why Oracle and Red Hat are “in it”

Posted on September 14, 2009 by Bob Sutor

A couple of weeks ago and now on the Sun website, Oracle’s CEO Larry Ellison stated that “We’re in it to win it.” Red Hat’s response is “We’re in it to share it.” Red Hat has a video on the … Continue reading →

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Daily Links for Sunday, September 6, 2009

Posted on September 6, 2009 by Bob Sutor

Open Source Ubuntu’s Karmic Koala emerges in alpha 5 DesktopLinux.com The Ubuntu project released Karmic Koala alpha 5 (Ubuntu 9.10), which adds Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud support, a new Ubuntu Cloud file-sharing service, and default switches to GCC 4.4, Ext4, and … Continue reading →

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Daily Links for Saturday, September 5, 2009

Posted on September 5, 2009 by Bob Sutor

Open Source IBM is its own open-source lab for social software CNet / Matt Asay Most vendors must guess what customers want to buy, and how they’ll use it. For IBM, however, with about 400,000 employees, it has the potential … Continue reading →

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My Red Hat Summit keynote: “Linux Everywhere? Matching the Workload to the Computer”

Posted on September 2, 2009 by Bob Sutor

My Red Hat Summit is now available SlideShare and viewable below. You can also download the PDF directly. (The URL is now fixed.) Abstract: It’s a testament to the wild success of Linux that it is showing up on devices … Continue reading →

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Red Hat Summit this week

Posted on September 1, 2009 by Bob Sutor

I’ll be speaking at the Red Hat Summit in Chicago, specifically tomorrow, Tuesday, September 1. Keynote at 9:10 Linux Everywhere? Matching the Workload to the Computer Breakout Session at 10:50, with Jim Adreon IBM: Leading Enablement of Enterprise Cloud Computing

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At the airport + Linux, virtualization, and the cloud

Posted on March 19, 2009 by Bob Sutor

I’m sitting near Gate 36 at Washington’s National Airport waiting for my 3:30 PM flight home. Evidently it’s going to be delayed a bit, but given that I was originally on the 9:10 flight, 45 minutes or so won’t be … Continue reading →

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Red Hat announces its virtualization plan

Posted on February 24, 2009 by Bob Sutor

Yesterday Red Hat announced its plans around virtualization in its press release “Red Hat Announces Broad ISV Ecosystem is Virtualization-Ready”. In part, the press release states With today’s news, Red Hat ISV partners are ensured through an Application Binary Interface … Continue reading →

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Ten years of IBM and Red Hat

Posted on February 18, 2009 by Bob Sutor

Over on the Red Hat site there’s an article by Alex Pinchev, President of Red Hat Global Sales, Services and Field Marketing, and Inna Kuznetsova, Director, IBM Linux Strategy, called “Red Hat and IBM Celebrate 10 Years of Global Partnership.” … Continue reading →

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On to Ubuntu Linux 8.04

Posted on April 25, 2008 by Bob Sutor

Today I got around to installing Ubuntu Linux 8.04 on my Thinkpad T60p. I haven’t done too too much with it, but let me describe how I got this far. For over a month I’ve had the laptop set up … Continue reading →

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Life after Windows, Day 11: The printer lives

Posted on March 21, 2008 by Bob Sutor

Thanks to the egging on and information from various readers, especially Walt Hucks, I got my network printer to work yesterday for my Red Hat client in the guise of the IBM Open Client for Linux. The printer is an … Continue reading →

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links for 2008-03-13

Posted on March 13, 2008 by Bob Sutor

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2 Beta released “So the new RHEL 5.2 desktop will come with the absolute newest of the major Linux desktop applications. These include Evolution 2.12.3, Firefox 3, OpenOffice 2.3.0 and Thunderbird 2.0.” (tags: redhat opensource linux) … Continue reading →

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links for 2007-12-21

Posted on December 21, 2007 by Bob Sutor

Red Hat to get new CEO from Delta Air Lines | Underexposed – CNET News.com “In a surprise move, Red Hat said Thursday that Matthew Szulik is as president and chief executive on January 1, to be replaced by James … Continue reading →

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links for 2007-08-06

Posted on August 6, 2007 by Bob Sutor

Open Source Red Hat Global Desktop delayed “Sources close to the Linux distributor said Red Hat was seeking to conclude negotiations with Microsoft for access to its popular WMF (Windows Media Format) codecs.” (tags: redhat Microsoft linux) Lenovo to sell … Continue reading →

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links for 2007-07-28

Posted on July 28, 2007 by Bob Sutor

ODF Red Hat Magazine | ODF: The inevitable format “The ODF Alliance contends that open standards actually promote choice and vendor competition by leveling the playing field.” (tags: odf openoffice pdf) Virtual Worlds IBM Issues Employee Conduct Rules For Second … Continue reading →

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links for 2007-07-25

Posted on July 25, 2007 by Bob Sutor

Microsoft: Next Version Of Windows Due In 2010 — Microsoft Windows — InformationWeek 1) It will slip. 2) It won’t have discussed features. 3) If Windows Vista ends up being more Windows ME 2.0, then they’ll be under a lot … Continue reading →

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links for 2007-06-02

Posted on June 2, 2007 by Bob Sutor

Clever Stuff Gizmoz / The world of animated avatars, buddy icons, Talking Heads and user generated Talking Heads Videos (tags: avatar animation 3D fun) Open Source Highly Flexible Fedora 7 Linux Arrives “On May 31, Red Hat’s sponsored and community-supported … Continue reading →

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links for 2007-03-20

Posted on March 20, 2007 by Bob Sutor

Second Life Watarrka Park at 229, 67 (slurl) Second Life open source information center. (tags: secondlife opensource) Linux Red Hat Plans Linux Desktop Offering ‘for the Masses’ “Red Hat is planning a packaged Linux desktop solution that it hopes will … Continue reading →

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links for 2007-02-24

Posted on February 24, 2007 by Bob Sutor

Open Source E-Commerce News: Software: South African Government Adopts Open Source Policy “South Africa announced Thursday its plan to use open source software on government-run computer systems.” (tags: opensource) JBoss founder departs Red Hat | CNET News.com “As expected, JBoss … Continue reading →

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A view on OOXML and the standards process in India

Posted on February 14, 2007 by Bob Sutor

Venkatesh Hariharan from Red Hat in India just put up a blog entry that talks about some of what went on in India prior to its submission of comments during the Contradiction Period for the JTC1 Fast Track process. Read … Continue reading →

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links for 2007-01-18

Posted on January 18, 2007 by Bob Sutor

Open Source Open Source Challenges Vista at U.K. Education Show ‘At the beginning of the assignment, Microsoft’s commitment to ODF was assessed by Oakleigh as being “in denial.” At the end of the assignment it was assessed by them as … Continue reading →

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Unfakeable linux

Posted on December 8, 2006 by Bob Sutor

I thought this response from Red Hat was pretty funny.

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links for 2006-12-06

Posted on December 6, 2006 by Bob Sutor

ConsortiumInfo.org – Novell, ODF and Castles in the Sand Andy Updegrove’s usual sane approach to a current frenzy in the industry: Net: ODF is winning and will still win, in my opinion. (tags: odf) The magical mathematics of music (tags: … Continue reading →

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links for 2006-11-22

Posted on November 22, 2006 by Bob Sutor

Microsoft and Novell Novell CEO Rebuffs Microsoft Claims “In an open letter to the Linux and open-source community, Novell repudiates suggestions that its recent collaboration agreement with Microsoft acknowledges that Linux infringes on Microsoft’s intellectual property.” (tags: novell microsoft linux) … Continue reading →

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links for 2006-10-26

Posted on October 26, 2006 by Bob Sutor

Linux and Open Source Novell announces PCs preloaded with SUSE Linux “Wouldn’t it be great to just get a PC with Linux already installed and ready to go? Novell thinks that’s a grand idea too” (tags: novell linux suse) Ellison … Continue reading →

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