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We want to congratulate the Free Software Foundation, the Software Freedom Law Center, and the many companies and individuals, who have all worked so diligently, for their efforts in developing version 3 of the GNU General Public License. Their work is to be commended. Red Hat believes our end user customers will benefit from several of the new provisions in GPLv3, including the patent license provisions. Red Hat will continue to contribute to projects that migrate from GPLv2 or other licenses to GPLv3, and we will look to include GPLv3-licensed projects in our future distributions. GPLv3 will also be added to the list of approved open source licenses under Red Hat’s Patent Promise.
AmberPoint recently announced version 6 of AmberPoint SOA Management System and AmberPoint SOA Validation System. Each delivers new capabilities for understanding and controlling heterogeneous SOA applications and business processes. Key areas of improvement include visibility into your SOA deployments, control of SOA services and automation of operational tasks required to keep a SOA deployment running smoothly. AmberPoint also delivers these capabilities supporting multiple platforms including JBoss Enterprise Middleware. We are excited to see AmberPoint as a key strategic partner in the Red Hat SOA ecosystem, making SOA Simple, Open and Affordable.
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The National Vulnerability Database (NVD) is a US Government repository of vulnerability management data that includes databases of security checklists, security related software flaws and impact metrics. It provides a public severity rating for all the vulnerabilities named by the CVE (Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures), a list of standardized names for vulnerabilities and other security exposures. The ratings can be “Low,” “Medium” or “High”. Each rating is generated automatically based on the CVSS (Common Vulnerability Scoring System) score its analysts calculate for each issue.
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An important milestone has been reached for the upcoming Red Hat Developer Studio product from Red Hat. We have completed open sourcing the former Exadel Studio Pro plugins from the Red Hat/Exadel Partnership that we announced back at EclipseCon in March.
These plugins, along with the former JBoss IDE plugins, and some new ones (e.g. a Seam plugin) are all available at the JBoss Tools project at jboss.org. You can visit the JBoss Tools project to check out the source code and download the latest versions of the plugins. And, of course, we welcome your participation in the open source project too.
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An excerpt from Mark Little’s blog on JBoss.com:
The software industry goes through cycles in just the same way as other industries. Back in the early 1980s, we were working on defining distributed systems with work on RPC, stub generators, naming services, transactions, security etc. A lot of work was done by vendors and academia. Interoperability or portability were not considered important.
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Now that Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 has been available for a few months, it seems like a good time to stand back and take a higher-level look at the new member of the server family – Advanced Platform.
In previous releases of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, we had AS and ES server variants. Have you noticed how nobody is mourning that we dropped them? Although they don’t exist with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, these variants were vital to establishing the Enterprise Linux product line. Perhaps the most interesting aspect of the two variants was that they were technically identical. The same package set, same updates, same everything — except for a single file that contained the AS or ES name. Keeping them the same was very important because it meant that an ISV only needed to certify his application once, whereupon it was certified on both variants. » Read more
The convergence of voice, video and data is causing sweeping change in the telco industry. It’s increasing demands on providers too. Red Hat delivers the tools to help telecom carriers deliver next-generation communications: an infrastructure that cuts costs and increases performance, and a true open development platform that encourages rapid innovation. The Red Hat solution for telecommunications combines Red Hat Enterprise Linux, JBoss Enterprise Middleware, Mobicents JSLEE and a broad ecosystem of telco hardware and software providers — all to help carriers devote valuable resources not toward maintaining expensive proprietary infrastructure, but in creating new services for their customers.
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Red Hat is a proud sponsor of and contributor to the pilot program of the Peer-to-Patent project, which launched June 15, 2007. This project, developed by New York Law School’s Institute for Information Law and Policy with the cooperation of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (PTO), will test an approach for enabling the public to participate in the patent-examination process. While this pilot will have limited scope—one year, 250 software patents—we hope that the data we gather will demonstrate the value of public inclusion in the patent-examination process, enabling the PTO to someday extend it to all filed patent applications.
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Red Hat has teamed up with August Schell to run and support the U.S. Department of Defense’s (DoD) public key infrastructure (PKI). The DoD PKI is the world’s largest and most advanced PKI installation, supporting all military and civilian personnel throughout the DoD worldwide.
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Questions like this tug at the heartstrings — and coronary arteries — of systems administrators everywhere. At Red Hat, we’re IT people. We get it.
That’s why we’re proud to announce the availability of an updated Red Hat Command Center hosted service. Red Hat Command Center makes it easy to keep a watchful eye on your entire IT infrastructure, so you find out about problems in-the-making well before they turn into early morning emergencies.
As you’d expect, Red Hat Command Center works like a song with your Red Hat Enterprise Linux and JBoss software. Recognizing that your IT infrastructure includes not only Linux and JBoss, but everything above and around that, we’ve made sure that Command Center can also keep an eye on the rest of your IT environment including Solaris 10, Windows Server 2003, VMware ESX, Oracle 10g, MySQL 5, SQL Server 2005, IIS 6, Apache, Tomcat, physical network devices, web sites, web-based applications and more.
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