Archive for March, 2008

The Red Hat Healthcare Team Returns From HIMSS08

by Healthcare Team

The Red Hat healthcare team is back from a tremendously busy HIMSS08. Hundreds of customers stopped by our booth, many of whom were surprised to see us at HIMSS. We had a lot of positive feedback from our customers when we told them about our focus on healthcare, the tremendous adoption by ISVs and the growing momentum behind open source. One technology that generated a particular amount of interest was our MetaMatrix Enterprise Data Services Platform, which can present a single, real-time, read/write view of different data sources. Providers are looking to MetaMatrix to help address challenges around unifying scattered, distributed databases with different data models.
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Filed under Events, Healthcare on March 6th, 2008 | Comments Off

Where’s Red Hat This March?

by Events Team

North America

InfoWorld is presenting the Open Source Business Conference in San Francisco, CA from March 25-26, and we’re sending Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst to keynote on true innovation in open source – see him speak from 9-9:30a.m. PT in the Gold Ballroom at The Palace Hotel. As a Platinum sponsor, Red Hat will also have have a tabletop booth in the exhibit area. Come hear how we’re changing the face of the open source industry.

We’re also sponsoring this year’s EclipseCon event in Santa Clara, CA from March 17-20. Join us at our booths to see demos of JBoss Developer Studio, or attend our session to hear more about the benefits of JBoss solutions. Find us in booths 216 and 217 at the ARAMARK Convention Center.
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Filed under JBoss, Events, Open Source on March 4th, 2008 | Comments Off

Strike One Against Microsoft

by Michael Cunningham, Executive Vice President & General Counsel

Strike One!

In our last blog posted on February 21, I proposed three test pitches for Microsoft to help judge the meaningfulness of its latest efforts to turn over a new leaf on interoperability. The first of these was to embrace the extant, multi-vendor ISO standard, ODF (Open Document Format) in lieu of its single vendor dominated efforts to create a new standard, OOXML (Office Open XML).

The first pitch was thrown in Geneva last week at the ISO ballot resolution meetings on OOXML. And we can safely say: strike one! There was no renouncement of the OOXML standard by Microsoft. Instead, every indication was business as usual.
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Filed under IP on March 3rd, 2008 | Comments Off