Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2 announced
Red Hat has now announced the availability of their Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2.
The updated edition comes loaded with enhancements in virtualization, clustering, and hardware support.
The company said that this release is a minor update release which they do twice a year.
Red Hat said that the latest release support virtualization [...]
Red Hat drop plans to develop Consumer Linux Desktop Edition
Linux Company Red Hat has now said that they are abandoning plans to develop a Consumer Linux Desktop edition.
The company said in a blog post: “We have no plans to create a traditional desktop product for the consumer market in the foreseeable future.”
Red Hat added: “The [...]
Red Hat Certificate System open sourced
Linux Company Red Hat has announced that they have now open sourced its Red Hat Certificate System identity-management and security system.
The company said that this is just an indication of their trust in the open source community which would now provide their inputs to create the most secure infrastructure.
Red Hat [...]
Amentra acquired by Red Hat
Linux Company Red Hat has announced the acquisition of IT consulting firm Amentra which specializes in open-source technologies.
The company said that this acquisition would help them sell its JBoss Java infrastructure to enterprises.
Amentra deals in SOA and business process management and they would continue to operate independently.
The two companies did [...]
Sun Microsystems to start shipping xVM Ops Center
Sun Microsystems is expected to start shipping their xVM Ops Center today. This new product is a data center automation console which works with Linux, Solaris and SPARC machines.
It enables automatic installation of firmware and bare-metal operating systems along with scanning and tracking of servers in a network [...]
IBM to ship Linux version of Open Collaboration Client
US based tech giant IBM has said that they would soon ship a Linux edition of its Open Collaboration Client which includes Lotus Notes 8 and Symphony products.
It would be launched for the hugely popular Ubuntu edition of the Linux distribution.
The company added that they are [...]
Matthew Szulik steps down as the CEO of Red Hat
Linux company Red Hat has announced that their CEO Matthew Szulik is stepping down from his position in the company after nine years of leading the company.
He would now become the chairman of Red Hat’s board of directors.
Red Hat further said that Jim Whitehurst, former chief [...]
JBoss Developer Studio now available
Red Hat has announced that they are now shipping JBoss Developer Studio.
JBoss Developer Studio is an Eclipse-based IDE which comes loaded with open source tooling and runtime software.
This suite also features JBoss Enterprise Middleware and technologies from Exadel.
Red Hat had released a beta version of this product earlier this year.
Bryan Che, [...]
Red Hat Enterprise MRG software suite showcased
Linux Company Red Hat has now showcased a new software product named Red Hat Enterprise MRG (Messaging, Realtime and Grid).
The company said that this new software product combines messaging, real-time and grid capabilities for enterprises.
This is for this companies which require a product that can process messages and transactions [...]
Red Hat Enterprise Linux available through Amazon EC2
Red Hat has announced that they are now making available their Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) service.
They have released a beta edition of this OS on this platform which provides hosting solutions for business software applications.
With this, customers would only be required [...]
