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We are pleased to announce that the latest Cumulative Patch for JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (EAP) v4.2 and v4.3 has expanded its number of Certified Configurations and has added support for more mainframes and Java SE 6.
The number of certified operating systems, chip architectures and Java Virtual Machine (JVM) configurations has increased from 16 to 29. Red Hat continues to support any configuration that runs on a Certified JVM as a Compatible Configuration. The Cumulative Patch also includes official support for Java SE 6 for JBoss EAP v4.3 using the Sun JDK.
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Providing solutions for business problems the open source way — that’s what this case study is all about. Alfresco provides an open source alternative for enterprise content management, which means that enterprises can accelerate collaboration and information sharing using open standards. Open standards allows for choice — a defining attribute of Red Hat solutions.
And because Alfresco is a Red Hat Exchange (RHX) partner, the customer can be confident that the collaborative support relationship between Red Hat and Alfresco will result in world-class service. We’re excited to see customers taking advantage of the value of open source to enable innovation in their specific areas of expertise. To learn more about RHX and find other business solutions, visit http://rhx.redhat.com/.
Back at this year’s Red Hat Summit in June, we announced that we were open sourcing Red Hat Network (RHN) Satellite under the name Project Spacewalk. In the nine weeks or so since the debut of Spacewalk, we’ve been blown away by the level of interest, the contributions and the excitement generated by the project. We’ve seen some cool results delivered quickly and we wanted to share some of Spacewalk’s milestones to date.
With the start of most open source projects, it takes a little while for the user participation and list traffic to drum up to high levels. So, we predicted that it would take months to get Spacewalk ramped up, and some time before we started receiving patches. Well, much to our surprise and excitement, Spacewalk generated early interest and results came much more quickly than we predicted.
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Court decisions on free and open source software licensing are unusual, and for lawyers who represent open source companies and projects, somewhat anxiety producing. Fortunately, lawsuits over such licenses are rare, because the licenses are effectively enforced informally to the extent necessary by the free and open source community and disputes are generally resolved informally. This is a positive thing; lawsuits are unbelievably wasteful in terms both of money and spirit. But as a consequence, there are few court decisions to serve as legal precedents.
This creates some uncertainties when a case gets to court. Free and open source software is still a relatively new paradigm. A court coming to the area for the first time may not immediately comprehend this paradigm, and in deciding a given case may draw on analogies to older legal rules that do not fit well. That court may just get things wrong. The effect of a single wrong decision is likely to be magnified, because a later court will be more likely to rely on that decision when it is one of few.
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We are very excited to announce that the JBoss ESB and JBoss Drools projects have each received a BOSSIE Award from InfoWorld. JBoss ESB took home the “Best Enterprise Service Bus (ESB)” in the “Best of Open Source Platforms and Middleware” category, while JBoss Drools won “Best Rule Management System” in the “Best of Open Source Developer Tools Category.” This is the second consecutive BOSSIE for JBoss Drools, which also won the 2007 “Best Business Rule Management System” award from InfoWorld. Our congratulations go out to the development teams for both projects!
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We’ve met with many healthcare providers who have asked us about our Service Oriented Architecture and middleware solutions, specifically for the healthcare sector. In talking to these customers about the problems they face, we see a recurring theme: healthcare information is complex and scattered across multiple siloed data sources. These data sources include relational databases, flat files, XML and proprietary applications accessed via web services. Providing a single view of all these data sources requires more than just deploying a middleware SOA solution.
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Following the release of Fedora 9 last May, we’ve been hard at work in anticipation for Fedora 10. OK, so maybe we took one day off to celebrate the success of Fedora 9, but we didn’t wait too long before diving in to implement cool, new features in the next release. Fedora 10 (Cambridge) is due out in November 2008, and the Alpha release provides a chance for the whole community to weigh in. Tell us what you think and get involved in testing the new features – check out the Fedora 10 Alpha release notes, and then download the Alpha.
Red Hat engineers working in Fedora and upstream communities have been developing several new features slated for Fedora 10. Here are just a few of the features that we’re very excited to deliver:
There are more great features on the way. As always, everything that goes into and comes out of the Fedora Project is completely open and free for anyone to use, modify, and redistribute. Keep an eye on our wiki’s feature list to see how things are progressing throughout the Fedora 10 development cycle.
Every year, SD Times compiles its list of the companies, organizations and individuals that most broadly “set the agenda” for software development managers, developers and the industry through leadership and innovation during the past calendar year in the highly-regarded SD Times 100. Companies, projects and individuals are initially nominated by BZ Media editors, and by a group of esteemed writers, conference faculty and analysts. Ultimately, the nominees are judged by SD Times’ editors, who then compile the final list of top innovators and leaders across multiple software industry areas.
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I am very pleased to announce that Genome, the project known inside Red Hat as Everest, has officially been released under the GPLv2 at http://genome.et.redhat.com. Our intent is that this is the first of many open source projects to be developed and delivered by Red Hat Information Technology.
Genome is an architecture and a set of tools for creating Linux system configurations and replicating those configurations across multiple environments. It was conceived, matured, and open sourced by the Red Hat Information Technology team. The team worked with many others in Red Hat to insure adoption and acceptance of the solution and to foster a community outside our firm.
Genome has been in development for almost a year and has been used by multiple development teams in IT. This experience has enabled us to refine it to its present state. Genome aggregates a collection of world-class emerging technology engineering projects to improve both development and operations for IT organizations.
We plan to engage the Genome community to bring the project to its full potential and we’ve already received material contributions by individuals outside Red Hat. I encourage those of you with interest to join the Genome community. The external mailing list is genome-list@redhat.com and the IRC channel is #genome at irc.freenode.net.
I congratulate the Genome team for their outstanding contribution to Red Hat and to the Genome community.