Microsoft finally admits Linux is a threat!
Microsoft has till now never admitted Linux as a threat to their Windows business.
The company is now changing that stance now.
Microsoft has stated in a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that Red Hat and Canonical (Ubuntu) are competitors to their Windows client business.
This is [...]
Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization announced
Linux company Red Hat has entered into the Virtualization market with the launch of a couple of products that take on offerings from companies like Vmware and Microsoft.
They are now offering their customers an open-source option for virtualizing their data centers.
This includes the built-in virtualization provided by their Red Hat [...]
Fedora 11 codenamed Leonidas
Paul W. Frields has revealed that they are naming the next edition of Fedora as Leonidas.
Fedora is in version 10 currently. The developers are working on the Leonidas 11 release.
It is expected to be released in May this year.
Some of the new features planned for this release include:
Inclusion [...]
Red Hat launches Extended Update Support for customers
Linux company Red Hat has announced the launch of a new service plan for their customers.
This new plan is named Extended Update Support.
It is aimed at the RHEL customers.
The company said that this plan allows their customers to run and maintain one version of [...]
Oracle contributes data-integrity protection code to Linux code
Database industry giant Oracle has contributed data-integrity protection code which was developed in collaboration with hardware vendor Emulex to the Linux kernel.
The company said that this code would decrease the possibility that erroneous data will get written to disk.
Scott McIntyre, vice president of product marketing at Emulex added [...]
Fedora claims to have as many as 9.5 million users
Red Hat’s Fedora community claims that their version of the Linux OS is used by around 9.5 million users worldwide.
They arrived to this number by calculating the number of unique IPs that access their servers for updates.
This number is not very accurate as IPs [...]
Wikipedia switching from Red Hat to Ubuntu powered servers
Wikipedia is one of the most popular online destinations on the web. The user created open source encyclopedia is visited by millions of web users every day.
The administrators of the servers powering Wikipedia are working on switching from Red Hat powered solutions to Ubuntu.
In fact, [...]
Red Hat acquires virtualization company Qumranet
Linux Company Red Hat has announced their decision to acquire Israeli software company Qumranet.
Qumranet specializes in development of kernel-based virtual machine technologies.
The deal is worth USD 107 million.
Red Hat CTO Brian Stevens spoke about this deal: “Through this acquisition, Red Hat is assuring that KVM will remain open.”
Analysts believe that [...]
Fedora 10 alpha released
The developers behind the Fedora Linux distribution have now made available Fedora 10 alpha.
This is the latest test release of this community-sponsored, free and open-source Linux distribution which includes several enhancements and new updates.
They are now aiming to release the final edition of Fedora 10 by November this year.
Fedora 9 was released [...]
JBoss Java middleware now available on Amazon.com EC2
Linux Company Red Hat has announced that they are now making available JBoss Java middleware through the Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud.
This comes eight months after the company made available its Enterprise Linux on the Amazon’s infrastructure.
Red Hat revealed that they would be charging a fixed subscription rate of [...]
