Red Hat to gain new developer tools
Red Hat and Exadel have announced a partnership that will bring Eclipse-based developer tools to Red Hat’s JBoss middleware.
Red Hat and Exadel have announced a partnership that will bring Eclipse-based developer tools to Red Hat’s JBoss middleware.
IDGNS: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (RHEL5) comes out this month. What are some of the features that will move virtualisation forward and keep Red Hat competitive?
Following on the heels of its “Unfakeable Linux” rebuttal to the recent incursion by Oracle into its core Linux support business, Red Hat has called the new alliance between rivals Microsoft and Novell “unthinkable” — but still spun it as a victory for all Linux vendors.
While it wasn’t quite the Linux announcement that had been expected, Oracle’s latest move will definitely see the company butt heads with the leading distributor of the open-source operating system, Red Hat.
It wasn’t the Oracle-branded Linux that many were expecting. In a way, it was something much worse.
Red Hat has come out fighting against Oracle’s plan to offer Red Hat support services for roughly half of what Red Hat itself charges.
Novell and Microsoft chief executives Ron Hovsepian and Steve Ballmer today announced a wide-ranging interoperability deal that will allow the companies' Linux and Windows platforms to work together.
Red Hat has pushed out the first public beta of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, an upgrade to its operating system that includes virtualisation technologies intended to help companies get more use from their hardware.
Virtualisation was a hot topic at the recent Red Hat Open Source Symposium held in Auckland.
Enterprise Linux customers typically pick from just two options. Although HP’s decision to support Debian could widen the playing field, the choice really comes down to Novell and Red Hat. It’s worth comparing the two in terms of product offerings and overall style.
Red Hat faces a patent infringement lawsuit over an application that came under its wing as a result of its acquisition of JBoss.
Linux enterprise vendor Red Hat is to open an office in New Zealand and is actively recruiting staff.
Red Hat’s acquisition of JBoss came as something of a surprise. Like many others, I expected Oracle would be the one to snap up the open source J2EE vendor. Still, stranger things have happened.
Novell president and chief operating officer Ron Hovsepian sees the acquisition of the JBoss application server by Red Hat as having “further validated our early adoption of JBoss.”
Red Hat’s planned acquisition of JBoss has raised questions about the future of the Jonas application server, the best-known project to emerge from Europe’s ObjectWeb open source software consortium.