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Archive for July, 2007

Mission Creep: Open Source Virtualization Usage Models Proliferate

Over the past few years, a lot of IT hype has been expended on virtualization technology. It was ready for prime time, or it wasn’t; everybody was using it already, or they weren’t; it was expensive, or it wasn’t; and so on. Now that Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 has been available for a few months, we are starting to see how customers are actually going to use virtualization. This allows us to get to the truth behind the hype.
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Red Hat Public Sector Podcast Series

With all of our news (see here, and there) around Common Criteria in the last few weeks, we thought you might also be interested in checking out the Red Hat Public Sector Podcast Series to hear more information on our work with both IBM and HP in the public sector. Recently, Chris Runge from Red Hat’s government team caught up with Mary Ann Fisher, IBM’s world-wide program director for Linux in the Public Sector, for a discussion that touches on IBM’s Common Criteria testing along with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, open standards and Cross Domain Solutions.
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ISVs Move Quickly to Support Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

With the announcement that Red Hat and Oracle have completed certification of Oracle 10g Release 2 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, it seems like a good time to look at how Independent Software Vendor (ISV) certifications are coming along in general.
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JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 4.2

The Background

This week is important for the JBoss division. We’ve released our first Enterprise Platform. A few months back, we blogged about how we had decided to split our release work into two “branches”: the JBoss.org releases (i.e. JBoss as you always knew it) and the Enterprise releases (the only ones we will sell support for).
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JBoss Portal 2.6 Makes Personalized SOA Simple, Open and Affordable

JBoss Portal 2.6 builds on the JBoss open source tradition of collaboration with our users, customers and developer community, simplifying user interaction and participation in service-oriented-architecture-enabled business processes. JBoss Portal continues to see expanding deployment in customer service and intranet portal deployments where a simpler, more open and affordable platform is required. The telecommunications, financial services, government and other industries see the benefits of using open source software to add value to their SOA deployments by delivering to human business process participants a personalized experience improving their productivity doing their jobs. » Read more


How’s Fedora 7 Faring?

It’s been about one month since the release of Fedora 7 and we thought it was time to give you a few updates.

We’ve had over 300,000 installations of Fedora 7 in the first month since its release on May 31. That number is thus far pretty in-line with expectations, given that Fedora Core 6 received close to 400,000 installations in its first month, and we expect that people will wait a little while to upgrade their systems. Fedora keeps a statistics page with information about the newest releases if you’d like to learn more.
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