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Linux on Wall Street will take place at The Roosevelt Hotel in New York City on April 1. See Red Hat at booth #209, where we’ll feature live demos of Red Hat’s messaging, realtime and virtualization technologies. You’ll have the opportunity to learn how Red Hat Enterprise MRG’s Messaging component implements the AMQP standard and leverages Red Hat Enterprise Linux to provide reliable, fast messaging. You can also learn how to get deterministic low latency with Red Hat Enterprise MRG’s Realtime capabilities.
This year’s RSA Conference is being held at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, CA from April 8-11. Come learn more about Red Hat’s security offerings through demos at booth #128.
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Today is Document Freedom Day (DFD). Celebrated for the first time, it’s a global day for document liberation. According to the website, “it will be a day of grassroots effort to educate the public about the importance of Free Document Formats and Open Standards in general.” Red Hat is celebrating the day through awareness activities and use of the created DFD artwork, and we’ve publicly expressed our own support of open standards.
As the March 29th deadline for ISO’s OOXML vote draws closer, it’s a time for FLOSS advocates to show their support of open standards. When talking about document standards, the greatest interoperability is achieved by having one standard to which all vendors adhere. Some proprietary companies argue that having one standard stifles innovation, but we don’t think that’s true because complying with a standard does not preclude developers from creating multiple formats in which to create, save and exchange documents. Having an open document standard simply means that text documents, spreadsheets and presentations that users create and exchange can be opened by the software program of their choice.
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Health IT has tremendous potential in addressing the major challenges we face in healthcare: improving patient safety and quality of care and managing costs while improving efficiency.
One of the most visible challenges that health IT faces is the question of protecting privacy. If patient privacy cannot be protected, patients will not trust a system with accurate, complete medical information, rendering the system useless.
Properly designed, greater adoption of health IT offers the potential to improve patient privacy. For example, electronic records enable patients to selectively give access to parts of their medical record to specific individuals. Electronic records can also audit access to medical records. Neither of these are practical with paper records.
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We’ve established our Information Technology objectives for our 2009 fiscal year, which just started. Last year we used a fairly lengthy list of objectives in eight or nine categories. Although it gave us a useful view of all the things we wanted to accomplish, we found it somewhat hard to focus on a large number of goals.
This year, we are taking a simpler approach and organizing our objectives in four categories: Enable the Business, Grow Our Capabilities, Improve Process Discipline, and Deliver Financial Transparency. In each of these categories, we have a set of specific objectives. We developed measurements for the objectives at a recent IT leadership meeting.
The four high level objectives are designed to support the overall goals of Red Hat for the fiscal year. Within each, IT associates and their managers will establish goals relevant to their specific responsibilities.
Throughout the year, we will review our progress against the objectives and adjust as necessary.
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If you’re curious about what might be included in the next version of Fedora — Fedora 9 Sulphur, due out in late April 2008 — today’s Beta release gives a good glimpse into what’s ahead. The Beta release signals the feature freeze for the next release, meaning that all major features that we plan to include have to either be complete or in a testable state. It’s aimed at our developers and early adopters, but everyone in the community is given the opportunity to give feedback to improve our latest and greatest cycles. Testing of the Fedora 9 Beta release is really simple because with live media images, you don’t need to install anything.
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Red Hat Certificate System was acquired from AOL three years ago as part of the Netscape technology acquisition. In keeping with our commitment to open source software, today Red Hat has released all of the source code to Red Hat Certificate System. Much of the technology in Red Hat Certificate System was already open source, including the Apache web server, Red Hat Directory Server and the FIPS140-2 level 2 validated NSS cryptographic libraries, but today’s move further demonstrates Red Hat’s belief that the open source development model creates more secure software.
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Our third-annual Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) of the Year contest has officially kicked off – more details here. The contest is designed to recognize achievements of RHCEs from around the world who have particularly interesting or motivational success stories. Submissions are simply a response to the question, “why should you be considered RHCE of the Year?”
In the past, we’ve honored RHCEs from North America, Asia-Pacific and EMEA, but this year, we’ve expanded the contest to include two additional regions: South America and India. One winner will be selected from each of the five regions. The prize? A round-trip ticket to the Red Hat Summit – this year it’s in Boston, Mass. from June 18-20. We’ll have a special RHCE reception at the Summit, where our winners are presented to other Red Hat certified professionals, and then our winners will again be noticed during the Red Hat Innovation Awards ceremony on the last day of the event.
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On Tuesday, March 11, Red Hat released the Beta version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2. The Beta is expected to last approximately two months, with the final, supported update appearing soon after. During the Beta, Red Hat’s QA group, partners and customers will put the update through extensive testing for hardware support, feature enhancements and correct application operation to ensure that the final update is as solid as possible.
It is worth noting that although the Linux kernel is still 2.6-based, the number of enhancements between 2.6.0 and 2.6.24 (the latest version) are probably as extensive as between previous major releases, such as 2.2 to 2.4 or 2.4 to 2.6. This is because the 2.6 incremental development model is working very well, so that enhancements get merged upstream in manageable amounts. Who knows, perhaps the days of the “big new kernel release” are behind us, something that is a credit to the quality of the Linux kernel and the open source development model.
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As the March 29th voting deadline on OOXML approaches, Red Hat has announced its support of Open Document Format (ODF) instead of Office Open XML (OOXML). The Company released its official position statement on OOXML on Wednesday, March 5, 2008. The statement, hosted on Red Hat’s new Open Standards website, cites the desire for interoperability and the inadequacy of review as the Company’s primary reasons for opposing OOXML.
Red Hat supports ODF, an existing ISO (International Organization for Standardization) standard, which was openly reviewed and developed by the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS) for nearly three years before it was submitted to ISO for approval. In contrast, ECMA, the European Computer Manufacturer’s Association, reviewed OOXML for only one year before it sought ISO standardization. Despite the short review period, ECMA produced over 6,000 pages of documentation for OOXML, compared to the 700 pages of ODF.
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Florida Hospital is a huge hospital, with 2,300 beds spread across seven facilities. The Hospital is also highly regarded for the quality of care it provides, having secured accolades from publications such as US News and World Report.
The Florida Hospital IT team has embraced Red Hat solutions to provide a reliable infrastructure for patient information. Using Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Global File System and Red Hat Cluster Suite, Florida Hospital has built a robust disaster recovery system that is designed to ensure continuous availability of patient data. The team at Florida Hospital runs a wide range of software on the Enterprise Linux servers, including Oracle, Caché, Quovadx and the JBoss Enterprise Application Platform. Learn more about the Florida Hospital environment in today’s press release and recently published case study.